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• NASA Funds Radiation Experiments on Monkeys

  
  Critter News — Authority: 132
  Another animal experiment I would not support as a US taxpayer. Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine are calling attention to it. The research project, led by Jack Bergman of McLean Hospital, a Harvard Medical School affiliate in Belmont, Mass., was one of 12 awarded radiobiology research grants through ...
  3 days ago

• A Trip to an Animal Lab

  
  Critter News — Authority: 132
  Well, kind of. It wasnt a full-fledged tour, but disturbing nonetheless. I cant really talk about what I do except that I work in government. In a brief tour of a particular biotech research company, I was taken to the animal lab. They did not experiment on primates (I asked!), but did experiment on mice and ...
  5 days ago

• Animal Researchers Use Billboards to Promote Themselves

  
  Critter News — Authority: 132
  The "brave" animal researchers are taking their argument to the public and bypassing animal right activists. Heres an example... a billboard funded by the Foundation for Biomedical Research. "Ever had leprosy. Thanks to animal research, you wont." I for one welcome them coming out of the woodwork and forcing ...
  1 week ago

• UC Davis Named in Criminal Complaint for Mistreatment of Lab Animals

  
  Critter News — Authority: 132
  From the Los Angeles Chronicle... The University of California, Davis is the focus of a major federal complaint charging it and two other nationally known university research centers have killed dozens of primates through traumatic injuries, veterinary negligence and other violations. The others are the University ...
  2 weeks ago

• Two Examples of Mice Experiments - Valid or Not?

  
  Critter News — Authority: 132
  I came across these stories about two different medical experiments using mice. In this experiment, scientists tested whether lighting can cause depression. They used different lighting situations to see how they affect mice moods. One of the conclusions? That children who watch television late at night could be ...
  2 weeks ago

• Student Researcher Says "Hooray for Animal Research"

  
  Critter News — Authority: 132
  This kid is a biochem major at the University of Southern Mississippi. Hes helping to investigate possible drug cures for obesity. Listen to this... Freeman says that the most difficult thing he has encountered so far in his research comes not from the lab, but from people’s attitudes about animal testing. He ...
  4 weeks ago

• Why Is the Federal Government Awarding Contracts to a Company That Was Involved in Smuggling Primates?

  
  World Zoo Today — Authority: 443
  Source: Critter News Worldwide Primates Inc. was started by Mathew Block to import primates into the US for animal experimentation. In 1993, he went to prison for smuggling baby orangutans. Despite this, it looks like this has been no barrier to his company getting federal contracts. Here is a synopsis from a Brown ...
  8 weeks ago

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