“A dog endured “unimaginable pain and suffering” during heart research experiments, “just one of 300 killed in (Dr. Mehmet) Oz’s lab.”
What PolitiFact found
We did not find evidence of widespread pain and suffering among the dogs in the Columbia University lab. The ad’s focus on a dog known as 6313 is misleading.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Senate Majority PAC (Super PAC) made this claim around 11 October 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 19 October 2022, 8 days later. Its rating was “Half True”.
Senate Majority PAC has 5 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 0 of them false or fake, 5 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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