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Curing vision
problems in children?
The infant pictured here was one of eight
macaques used for durations of 3 to 24 weeks and was fitted with the goggles
shown on the first day of their lives to decorrelate their vision under the
claim of studying infantile esotropia. Like so many similar experiments in the
past, the macaques developed the desired vision problems.
The macaques left Yerkes Primate Center at Emory
University and were shipped to Washington Univ. in St. Louis, MO. between 4 to 6
months of age and were trained to perform tasks and were rewarded with food.
Eye coils were implanted at one year of age and all the
macaques were teted for 3 to 6 months. These visually impared infants were
required to maintain their eye position within a certain range for up to five
seconds to receive a juice reward.
"...scleral search
coils were implanted in both eyes and a custon-built polycarbonate
head-restraint device was attached to the skull."...
"...The monkey sat in a primate chair in the middle of field
coils. The head restraint was locked to preclude head movement and the room was
lit with dim background illumination. Eye position was calibrated at the start
of each recording session by using a calibration coil and by having the animal
maintain eye position within a 2 degree window of target position."
Yerkes National Primate Research Center
1997 NIH Base Grant: $5,662,807
1997 total NIH funding: $14,378,181
1999 NIH Base Grant: $6,265,427
2000 NIH Basegrant: $6,187,662
The primate colony at Yerkes totals over 3,000 animals, representing 11 species. According to the facility, “They include rhesus, pigtail and stumptail macaques, baboons, sooty mangabeys, capuchins, and squirrel monkeys. Yerkes also is one of the few research centers with chimpanzees, which are currently involved in noninvasive research on social intelligence, evolution, reproduction and conservation. [Implying that none of their chimpanzees are being harmed?
Yerkes is infamous for a number of reasons. First, it was the only one of the original seven NIH regional centers where, for over 30 years, apes were imprisoned and experimented on. An eighth center, the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research in San Antonio, was recently commissioned; it too has a large chimpanzee population.
Second, Yerkes specializes in forcibly addicting monkeys to illegal drugs.
And third, Yerkes funds studies which prove that chimpanzees and bonobos are capable of communicating with humans with human language and possess a sensitivity and consciousness so like our own that empathic understanding is common between members of each species (human and non-) who are given the time to get to know each other; while at the same time, Yerkes intentionally infects them with malaria and HIV-1 and forces them to live in solitary confinement.
Shielded from Public View
Yerkes uses the fact that its host university, Emory University, is a private college to shield it from public scrutiny. Yerkes has repeatedly refused to provide a census of the monkeys and apes it has on hand to members of the public. Yerkes claims that, being a private institution, they need not answer inquires from the public, that they are exempt from the federal Freedom of Information Act and that the many millions of dollars in taxpayer support they receive does not come with a responsibility to the taxpayer.
As long as Congress agrees, the concerns of the pubic regarding the facility are of no merit.
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Someones very best buddy in the whole wide world I'm sure. Although I view all these piercings inhumane treatment of this chimpanzee, beats being a laboratory owned primate.
In between all these piercing anyway, believe this chimp having the time of his life.
As a veterinarian who gets paid by clients to trim their dogs' toenails, although in a way this is showing affection for their pets, many of these pets scream and holler as if we are committing rape. And in a way it is, when you consider it's non-consensual.
So in a way, I can see where Philip Greaves is coming from when he says the overall stereotyped image we have of pedophiles is inaccurate. There are all types of abuses of children that do not fall under pedophilia, and the parents are not punished; people just look the other way.
I believe him when he says he is not a pedophile. He's unemployed. The house he lives in looks run down. And he admits to having sex as a child himself. I believe he was the one abused as a child, and he wrote this book based on what he knows, experienced, only just trying to survive life the only way he knows how.
Compared to me, I live in a much nicer house, relatively financially secure; whereas he is much more articulate than me; easier on the ear.
It's just too easy, hypocrisy actually, making all this fuss over a book written rather than actually addressing the root causes of pedophilia.
Pretty much the same as your typical
PRO-LIFE CRUSADER,
full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
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