Emotional Humane Medical Research Tagged Animal 
Critter News
MARCH 10, 2009
The article discusses how scientists are infecting monkeys with a surrogate HIV virus that does not even lead to AIDS, begging the question of why infect them in first place if there's no real simulation of what happens in humans? Here's my response on medical research in general. Perhaps it was a necessary “evil.”
Critter News
JUNE 16, 2010
I particularly question the use of chimpanzees in medical research. From what I recall, chimpanzees share at least 95 percent of human DNA, although the number that floats around the most is 98.6 Like other mammals, they are capable of strong emotions. The following is from The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan.
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