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Neurological Experiments: Monkey See...But Not Like Humans
Beyond Animal Research By Aysha Akhtar, M.D., M.P.H. May 2006 Neurological Experiments: Monkey See...But Not Like Humans Rhesus (or macaque) monkeys are some of the most common animals us |
Military Injects Monkeys with Nerve Agent
A monkey shakes violently from his jaws all the way to his hind legs. A large black tattoo reading “I035” stretches along the shaven left side of his twitching torso. He salivates profusely, and a puddle forms around his face. This scene is from a military training video PCRM obtained from the U.S. A |
PCRM Online | September 2005
September 2005 Physicians Committee for Respo |
Section Four: Physician-Assisted Suicide And Capital Punishment: What Role Should Physicians Play?
Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia Arguments AGAINST Permitting Physician-Assisted Suicide Arguments FOR Permitting Physician-Assisted Suicide |
PCRM Online Archive
February 2012: Read this issue> Watch James Franco and Kevin Nealon Pledge to Save Chimpanzees; Paula Deen Has Diabetes, PCRM Offers Help; Bob Barker Asks University of Virginia to End Cruel Use of Live Cats; Chinese-Language 21-Day Healthy Challenge Begins March 5; Cheese Billboards Highlight Obesity Risk; Feb. 10 |
Document Reveals Waste and Abuse in NASA's Monkey Radiation Experiments
WASHINGTON—NASA's inspector general is being urged to immediately halt NASA-funded experiments that expose live squirrel monkeys to harmful space radiation. Based on in-depth analysis of a previously undisclosed government document, experts with the nonprofit Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) h |
PCRM Urges NASA Inspector General to Block Monkey Experiment
PCRM Urges NASA Inspector General to Block Monkey Experiment A proposed NASA-funded experiment will bombard squirrel monkeys with harmful ionizing radiation to test the dangers of interplanetary travel, according to a government document recently uncovered by PCRM. PCRM physician John Pippin, M.D., F.A.C.C., and |
PCRM Confronts Army’s Chemical Weapons Exercises on Monkeys
The heart rate of monkey #2251-1 skyrocketed to well over 200 beats per minute as he stopped breathing and began to convulse violently. Veterinary technicians had given this vervet monkey a massive dose of a toxic drug to simulate a chemical weapons attack. At Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, the Army uses live v |
PCRM Confronts NASA over Monkey Radiation Experiment
PCRM Confronts NASA over Monkey Radiation Experiment PCRM doctors are urging NASA to leave monkeys out of the space race. The space agency recently approved a proposal to conduct radiation studies on live squirrel monkeys. In the planned experiment, researcher Jack Bergman will irradiate squirrel monkeys in an at |
Doctors Call for Sanctuary for NASA Squirrel Monkeys
A group of Massachusetts physicians is asking McLean Hospital to release 10 squirrel monkeys to sanctuaries. The monkeys were slated for NASA’s radiation experiments, which were recently canceled thanks in large part to PCRM’s efforts. In a letter to the president of McLean Hospital near Boston, whe |
Department of Energy Blocks NASA’s Planned Monkey Radiation Experiments
Brookhaven National Laboratory Confirms Cancellation of Space Agency’s $1.75 Million Boondoggle WASHINGTON—NASA’s plan to expose live squirrel monkeys to radiation has been canceled, according to a statement just released by Brookhaven National Laboratory. Administration officials informed the non |
New Document Reveals Gruesome Details of NASA's Monkey Radiation Experiments
In February, PCRM submitted a legal petition urging the Office of the Inspector General to halt NASA-funded experiments that will expose live squirrel monkeys to harmful radiation. Based on analysis of a previously undisclosed government document, PCRM experts have |
PCRM Online | June 2006
June 2006 |
URGENT: The U.S. Army Plans to Poison Monkeys in Chemical Warfare Exercise
A monkey shakes violently from his face all the way to his toes. A large black tattoo reading “I035” stretches along the shaven left side of his twitching torso. He salivates profusely, and a puddle forms around his face. He is still alive—for now. PCRM obtained this training video from th |
'Don't Nuke the Monkeys': Billboards, Ads, Demonstration Target Cruel NASA Experiments
“Belmont, we have a problem: Don’t nuke the monkeys.” Billboards and train station ads bearing that message alerted commuters in Belmont, Mass., to controversial radiation experiments taking place in their town. PCRM placed the pleas near Belmont’s McLean Hospital, the planned site of NASA- |
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