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August 3, 2021
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Bethesda, Maryland. – Cy Montgomery, renowned behaviorist and bestselling author, including Good good pig, urges Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to end government experiments on brain damage in monkeys.
In a letter to Collins, Montgomery notes that National Institutes of Health experimenter Elizabeth Murray cuts monkeys’ heads and injects toxins into their brains, surgically implants “head pillars” right into their skulls to keep their heads motionless for hours, and deprives them of food. and water to make them work together and terrorize them with realistic looking snakes and spiders. Her research has not led to a cure or cure for humans.
“I am shocked that this blatant atrocity is being committed at the main national biomedical research agency,” writes Montgomery. “Once [Jane] Goodall found that the key to the meaningful primate data she was studying was getting to know them on their own terms; I find it hard to believe that any important discoveries are about macaques. or people – could have appeared due to the keeping of primates in such an artificial, impoverished environment. “
The full text of her letter is available here.
Called Half Indiana Jones and Half Emily Dickinson Boston GlobeMontgomery is the author of 28 books for adults and children. She is the recipient of the New England Independent Booksellers Association Non-Fiction Award, the Children’s Guild Non-Fiction Award, the ASPCA Henry Berg Non-Fiction Award, and many other awards. Montgomery joins a coalition of scientists, doctors, primatologists, and other experts to condemn Murray’s experiments.
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