When the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) psychological torture of baby monkeys threatened to become a scandal a decade ago, then-NIH Director Francis Collins and his subordinates deceived the public while strategizing their approach to the matter via private emails they hoped would never be discovered.
However, thanks to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), which obtained the emails in 2020 through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, and the Daily Caller, which reported on the emails Friday, the mendacity of Collins and company has now been exposed.
Monkey Business at NIH
For more than 30 years, Stephen Suomi conducted experiments on baby rhesus macaques in a Maryland NIH laboratory. These experiments included intentionally breeding monkeys to be predisposed to mental illness, separating newborn monkeys from their mothers, frightening them with loud noises, and placing them in cages with their incapacitated mothers.
Suomi’s experiments were allegedly designed to mimic abuse of human children so scientists could better understand how it affects them.
PETA began putting pressure on NIH in 2014 after obtaining video footage of the experiments, some of which includes researchers’ laughter at the monkeys’ distress. Eventually, the group recruited primatologist Jane Goodall to appeal to Collins to end the experiments. […]
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