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STAY INFORMED.

We cannot ask monkeys for consent, but we can stop using, publishing, and in this case actively promoting cruel methods that knowingly cause extreme distress. “Doing science to promote welfare becomes a moral obligation. It is what we owe the animals who live with us, given our autonomy violations in the past.” (Andrews 2020)

We've provided links to important background information, including ethical objections from researchers, academics, and activists, scientific validation, as well as media coverage.

SCIENCE.ORG

Harvard studies on infant monkeys draw fire, split scientists

PETA

Harvard Experimenter Continues Depraved Legacy of Britches’ Tormenter

CBS NEWS

Harvard study on monkeys reignites ethical debate over animal testing

HARVARD LAW SCHOOL

Cruel Experiments on Monkeys Should Stop at Harvard Medical School

HARVARD LAW SCHOOL

Letter to Harvard Medical School’s Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) requesting protocol review

UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS

Letter from scientists to PNAS requesting retraction of Livingstone's publication

THE SIMPLE HEART

How Harvard Justifies Animal Torture with the Doctrine of “Necessary Evil”

DAILY MAIL

Harvard researcher who stitched baby monkeys' eyes shut also rips them from their mother's arms immediately after birth - reigniting ethical debate over animal testing

THE
SCIENCE.

Decades of research have already revealed that maternal separation causes suffering and is harmful to nonhuman primates, and that we have a moral duty to protect them from experimental exploitation.

PNAS

Maternal separation produces lasting changes in cortisol in rhesus monkeys

PRIMATES

Effects of six-day maternal separation on Tonkean macaque infants

DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOBIOLOGY

Maternal separation disrupts the integrity of the intestinal microflora in infant rhesus monkeys

PRIMATES

Dead-infant carrying by chimpanzee mothers in the Budongo Forest

ETHICS & POLITICS

Ethical Implications of Animal Personhood and the Role for Science

THEORETICAL MEDICINE & BIOETHICS

Harms and deprivation of benefits for nonhuman primates in research

ANIMALS

Ethical and Scientific Pitfalls Concerning Laboratory Research with Non-Human Primates, and Possible Solutions

JOURNAL OF TRAUMA & DISSOCIATION

Parallels in sources of trauma, pain, distress, and suffering in humans and nonhuman animals

ANIMAL WELFARE

Anticipation and Memory as Criteria for Special Welfare Consideration

THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF ANIMAL ETHICS

Animal Pain and Welfare: Can Pain Sometimes Be Worse for Them than for Us?

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“As a scientist, I question what we are learning that we couldn’t learn in another way. As a human, I’m horrified.”

Catherine Hobaiter  - Primatologist, University of St. Andrews

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