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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. Again, work by SAEN (Stop Animal Exploitation Now.) From the MetroWest Daily News.

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European Union Screws Apes Used in Medical Research

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Here are the results of the EU flirtation with restricting research on primates. Researchers can continue most experiments on mankind's closest relatives -- chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans -- after European Union lawmakers watered down proposals to restrict testing. Nothing, nothing makes me angrier than animal researchers.

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Southwest Primate Center "Celebrates" 10 Years

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This place is celebrating its 10th year with ground-breaking research into what makes us all fat. And let's not forget the required sanctimonious quote from an animal researcher “Our primates are essential partners in medical progress, as are mice, rats, guinea pigs and opossums. Fast food is bad for you? Oh brother.

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Animal Researchers Promote Sob Stories

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I don't support animal research and I have no sympathy for animal researchers. I don't believe they are working for human welfare. I would never advocate violence against a researcher. I almost quit a book club a year ago because one of the members is a proponent of medical research.

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SRI Denies Access to the Humane Society

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A Menlo Park research facility Monday refused to allow a humane society representative to check up on a monkey that bit a female lab worker the day before. received a very minor injury to the finger, was treated onsite by emergency response personnel and then at a local medical facility," SRI said in a statement released Monday. "The

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Malaysian Firm to Establish New Animal Testing Facility

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But of course, the argument will be that the project is economic development, jobs and "for the good of humanity.". Tags: animal research pharmaceuticals primates medical research malaysia. Fortunately, there are Malaysian activists opposing it.

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Two Examples of Mice Experiments - Valid or Not?

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I came across these stories about two different medical experiments using mice. Aren't there better things to research? Plus, are mice comparable to kids (although I would prefer mice subjects to primates who are so much more sensitive)? Tags: animal experimentation medical ethics mice medical research.

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