Is it just me or are the news lately really not nice? Less free internet, funding cuts for science (including NASA and this example), the economy is worse than it used to be (as far as I remember), general mental health of the population is tanking,almost every aspect of usual life is being exploited by apps for micropayments, wealth gap grows, I come gap, well, grows too, but everything is impossibly expensive for every class.. are we going into the "great recession" version of the dark ages? I mean, it's not it right?
But I have to agree, I do feel bad for the animals, but as someone who has participated in certain academic activities I am convinced that the scrutiny that the ethical committees have put the research through for this should ensure more than enough reasons for this research. Also. What happens with the monkeys? Do they send them to the zoo? I don't think so
Inevitable conclusion to conservative control in the US. But hey, at least you can call people n**r on Twitter without getting banned so all is right in the world for some people.
> Apart from the retirement of research chimpanzees initiated by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) a decade ago, the move would mark the first time a U.S. agency has ended its in-house nonhuman primate program. “It’s unprecedented,” says Sally Thompson-Iritani, the assistant vice provost responsible for the University of Washington’s animal care program.
Doesn't the fact that his has happened at least once before mean there is precedent?
Also, it looks like the animals are being replaced by something called "organ chips." I have no idea if those are effective are not, but, if they are, then this seems like it would be a positive development.
Ignoramuses running amok, dictating policies whose consequences they neither understand nor will take any responsibility for.
Nah they just know all the secrets ahead of time, like how they will start allowing tech companies to mess with genetics to cure this stuff
The wording of this headline shocked me, but it seems like they're going to stop infectious diseases on monkeys specifically?
CDC not researching infectious diseases at all is essentially closing their doors.
Right, just monkeys, and they only had 200 study monkeys in the first place. Pretty much a bacon double nothingingburger.
200 is a lot of monkeys
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Is it just me or are the news lately really not nice? Less free internet, funding cuts for science (including NASA and this example), the economy is worse than it used to be (as far as I remember), general mental health of the population is tanking,almost every aspect of usual life is being exploited by apps for micropayments, wealth gap grows, I come gap, well, grows too, but everything is impossibly expensive for every class.. are we going into the "great recession" version of the dark ages? I mean, it's not it right? But I have to agree, I do feel bad for the animals, but as someone who has participated in certain academic activities I am convinced that the scrutiny that the ethical committees have put the research through for this should ensure more than enough reasons for this research. Also. What happens with the monkeys? Do they send them to the zoo? I don't think so
Consider the possibility that the media wants you to feel bad.
Also consider the possibility that things can just suck, and pretending things don't suck doesn't solve problems, it actually does the opposite.
i think excess and constant negativity around world news actually does prevent problems from being solved.
wtfhappenedin1971.com
Weird that doesn’t reference the Powell Memo directly. But that’s what happened.
bingo
Inevitable conclusion to conservative control in the US. But hey, at least you can call people n**r on Twitter without getting banned so all is right in the world for some people.
> Apart from the retirement of research chimpanzees initiated by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) a decade ago, the move would mark the first time a U.S. agency has ended its in-house nonhuman primate program. “It’s unprecedented,” says Sally Thompson-Iritani, the assistant vice provost responsible for the University of Washington’s animal care program.
Doesn't the fact that his has happened at least once before mean there is precedent?
Also, it looks like the animals are being replaced by something called "organ chips." I have no idea if those are effective are not, but, if they are, then this seems like it would be a positive development.
Ignorance is Bliss.
Science is that which, despite your opinions, exists.
Pathogens everywhere are cheering.