New Document Reveals Gruesome Details of NASA's Monkey Radiation Experiments

Information: PCRM

4 March 2010

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 concluded that the monkey experiments are wasteful and unlawful.

A research protocol obtained by PCRM through the Freedom of Information Act reveals disturbing details about how monkeys will be treated in the experiments, as well as a lack of scientific validity and the researcher's reliance on discredited experimental principles. Researcher Jack Bergman submitted the protocol to Brookhaven National Laboratory, where the monkeys will be irradiated....

Source: New Document Reveals Gruesome Details of NASA's Monkey Radiation Experiments

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