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Harvard Medical School Facility Accused of Improper Research Reporting

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An Ohio-based animal rights organization has filed a complaint against Harvard Medical School, alleging that the school's New England Primate Research Center in Southborough did not properly report its experiments on animals. From the MetroWest Daily News. Department of Agriculture, which enforces the Animal Welfare Act.

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The Secret Perfume of Birds: Uncovering the Science of Avian Scent–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Whittaker had not yet gotten the message that birds don’t smell, her intellectual background was in primate research, but a colleague set her straight, telling her, “Birds don’t have a sense of smell, so I don’t understand why you’d study that anyway?” ” (p.

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Why I Question Animal Testing 2.2

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I particularly question the use of chimpanzees in medical research. I recently was escorted through a large primate research laboratory by its director. The natural experiment must have been tried very infrequently, at least recently. The following is from The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan.

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