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Cruel and unnecessary radiation experiments on monkeys

Dr. Marge Peppercorn, a retired pediatrician from Sudbury and a member of Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, said the experiment, proposed by McLean researcher Dr. Jack Bergman, would yield little useful information and would cost $1.75 million. She said any information from the experiment would provide little evidence of the actual impact of space radiation on astronauts on a deep space mission.

Protesters at Belmont’s McLean Hospital call experiment animal cruelty – Belmont, MA – Belmont Citizen-Herald, By Christian Schiavone Belmont Citizen-Herald,  Jun 10, 2010 Belmont, Mass. —About 50 demonstrators held signs outside McLean Hospital for more than an hour Thursday urging the hospital to cancel its plans to participate in an experiment to study the effects of radiation on monkeys…..The demonstrators gathered across the street from the hospital’s main entrance on Mill Street at noon holding signs reading “Don’t Nuke The Monkeys.” McLean researchers plan to monitor 30 squirrel monkeys for up to four years after they are exposed to radiation at a New York laboratory as part of a NASA-sponsored study. Opponents of the project say the experiment could cause cancer and other diseases in the tiny primates…
Dr. Marge Peppercorn, a retired pediatrician from Sudbury and a member of Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, said the experiment, proposed by McLean researcher Dr. Jack Bergman, would yield little useful information and would cost $1.75 million. She said any information from the experiment would provide little evidence of the actual impact of space radiation on astronauts on a deep space mission.

Protesters at Belmont’s McLean Hospital call experiment animal cruelty – Belmont, MA – Belmont Citizen-Herald

July 5, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Religion and ethics, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy