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Letter: Was this research really necessary?

Published 4 December 2024

From Emily Trunnell, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

Missing from the item about experiments in which researchers used monkeys to predict US election outcomes was the fact that they strapped them into restraint chairs for hours. Those who defend animal experiments claim that animals are only used for important research questions and when there is no alternative, but what was described is case-in-point that those words are meaningless platitudes (2 November, p 48).

Issue no. 3520 published 7 December 2024

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