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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
UPDATE: Victory for Monkeys as Army Agrees to End Live Chemical Casualty Exercise After years of pressure from PCRM, on Oct. 13, 2011, the Army announced that it would phase out the use of monkeys for its chemical casualty management courses. The Army completed this transition in November 2011. Now, the Army mak |
URGENT: The U.S. Army Plans to Poison Monkeys in Chemical Warfare Exercise
UPDATE: Victory for Monkeys as Army Agrees to End Live Chemical Casualty Exercise: After years of pressure from PCRM, on Oct. 13, 2011, the Army announced that it would phase out the use of monkeys for its chemical casualty management courses. The Army completed this transition in November 2011. Now, the Army makes |
PCRM Online Archive
May 2012: Read this issue> Bill Maher Asks Congress to Pass Great Ape Protection and Cost Savings Act; Nearly Half of Supermarket Chicken Tainted by Feces; Billboard, Protest Urge End of Lethal Pig Use in Trauma Training; PCRM’s Food for Life Program Launches New Website; Use of Cats in Pediatrics Training |
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 |
Monkeys Wounded in Army’s Cruel Nerve Agent Demonstrations
UPDATE: Victory for Monkeys as Army Agrees to End Live Chemical Casualty Exercise: After years of pressure from PCRM, on Oct. 13, 2011, the Army announced that it would phase out the use of monkeys for its chemical casualty management courses. The Army completed this transition in November 2011. Now, the Army m |
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 |
'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- |
NASA Engineer Resigns Over Monkey Radiation Experiments
NASA engineer April Evans recently resigned when the space agency refused to address her concerns about its proposed monkey radiation experiments. Evans’ decision to quit NASA, where she was an architect on the International Space Station, has received extensive coverage, including a story in the Houston Chr |
Halt Monkey Farm Construction to Protect Health and Environment, International Coalition Urges Puerto Rico Governor
WASHINGTON—A proposed primate-breeding facility in the Puerto Rican city of Guayama could endanger public health and pose serious risks to the island's environment, according to an international coalition of nonprofit health and animal protection organizations. On July 22, representatives of the Physicians C |
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