Thread by @BillyBostickson

1. Monkey Hell

2. investigations.peta.org/nih-monkey-tor…
It’s monkey fright night!
Experimenters terrify brain-damaged monkeys with fake snakes and spiders as part of a decades-long project in which monkeys are abused and terrorized. It cost you, the taxpayers, $47 million.
@WhiteCoatWaste @anthonybellotti

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4. For more than 30 years, government experimenter Elisabeth Murray has been inflicting permanent, debilitating brain damage on rhesus macaques and conducting painful, frightening, and pointless experiments on them.

5. Scientific Takedown
Deconstructing NIH’s Monkey Fright Experiments
peta.org/blog/neuroscie…
You can read the full scientific critique here
peta.org/wp-content/upl…

6. Non-Animal Alternatives

7. Obligatory Mention of a Wuhan Laboratory ;)
Explore the Institute of Model Animals of Wuhan University
new.qq.com/omn/20191115/2…

8. Back to the "Land of the Free"...
A haunting parallel to my life chainsmoking on Twitter over the last year under lockdown.
Baby Monkeys on Nicotine
blog.whitecoatwaste.org/2017/03/03/wcw…
Thanks to @WhiteCoatWaste they are now free and living in Florida
blog.whitecoatwaste.org/2018/01/30/vic…

9. More about NIH Monkey Hell
blog.whitecoatwaste.org/2020/02/23/bre…
The federal government has spent almost $100 million on monkey brain studies since 2007,
nbcnews.com/politics/polit…

10. From FDA Hell via FOIA to Florida Freedom
Tks @WhiteCoatWaste
1. FDA NICOTINE TESTS ON BABY MONKEYS
blog.whitecoatwaste.org/2017/03/03/wcw…
2. FDA SHUTS DOWN NICOTINE TESTS
blog.whitecoatwaste.org/2018/01/30/vic…
3. FROM FOIA TO FREEDOM
blog.whitecoatwaste.org/2018/12/04/fro…
4. FLORIDA
blog.whitecoatwaste.org/2020/02/21/wcw…