After an almost deadly bout with sepsis, Chrissy Matthies reflects on her experience and her outrage with the National Institutes of Health and experimenters for wasting millions of dollars on experiments on animals that repeatedly fail.

This is what real progress looks like! A new report released by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO)—which credits PETA scientists for working with federal agencies to promote the use of non-animal test methods—urges federal agencies like the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to evaluate how well they’re doing in reducing animal tests and to come clean about it to the public.