[Chat] JHU one of top ten

[Christine Gray]

http://www.stopanimaltests.com/f-worstlabs_07.asp 

 

I thought others on the Charles Village list might be interested in this
info from PETA.

 

Christine Gray 

 


PETA's '10 Worst Laboratories' List 




7. Johns Hopkins University 
In February 2005, Johns Hopkins University (JHU) agreed to pay $25,000 to
settle USDA charges concerning repeated and egregious violations of the AWA.
JHU is the most prestigious university ever to receive such a major fine,
and USDA charges were only pressed in this case because of JHU's baffling
refusal to correct violations year after year. USDA inspectors charged that
animals were not given anesthetics or proper veterinary care during painful
experiments. At least 37 primates were kept in cages that were too small or
failed in some other way to meet even the most basic humane standards.

PETA brought public attention to JHU's negligence in
<http://www.peta.org/feat/Hopkins> ecstasy studies that led to the gruesome
deaths of several primates. JHU experimenter George Ricaurte "accidentally"
injected the animals with "speed" instead of ecstasy, killing them and
invalidating his own research. Unbelievably, Ricaurte continues to waste
about a million taxpayer dollars each year on his illicit drug studies on
monkeys and baboons. It is utterly shameful that JHU receives more National
Institutes of Health (NIH) money for experimentation than any institution in
the world (about $600 million each year) yet cannot spare the time and
effort needed to provide basic care to the thousands of animals it uses.

In addition to its poor record of animal care, Johns Hopkins has a penchant
for cruel and bizarre basic research. For example, Lloyd Minor studies
"vestibular compensation" in squirrel monkeys. In lay terms, Minor studies
how eye movement reacts to sudden high-speed head movements and rotations by
implanting metal coils in the monkeys' eyes. He then surgically installs
steel poles in the monkeys' skulls, which lock into a special restraint
chair. The chair is rapidly spun and propelled, exerting tremendous force on
the immobilized monkey. In variations of this experiment, Minor cuts out
pieces of the monkeys' brains, hoping to see if these "lobotomized" monkeys
respond differently to the chair spinning. Minor does not even pretend that
this research has any clear application to human health, but he continues
his torture chamber-like work on innocent monkeys as well as chinchillas.
Shockingly, this project receives almost $500,000 each year from the
National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.

Please write, call, fax, or e-mail the head of the university and politely
ask him to stop these atrocities:

William Brody, President
Johns Hopkins University
Office of the President
242 Garland Hall
3400 N. Charles St.
Baltimore, MD 21218
410-516-8068
410-156-6097 (fax)
 <mailto:wrbrody at jhu.edu> wrbrody at jhu.edu 

 

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