Shawn Miller

Review of Persepolis Group - UW-Madison

This university is going to conduct unethical barb...

This university is going to conduct unethical barbaric maternal deprivation studies on baby monkeys. They will take the baby monkeys from their mother, continuously expose them to stressful stimuli (such as snakes, loud noises, ect...), and then kill the monkeys at 1 years of age and dissect their brain. Their justification for this cruelty is that they will use this to study how anxiety affects a developing brain. The brain development of monkeys is not the same as human children and thus this experiments benefits would be minimal. This experiment is nothing more than a fishing experiment by a Professor who wants to get some press. This experiment clearly does not reach the threshold where the medical value of the experiment outweighs the cruelty that will be suffered by the animals.