Neuroscientific research on monkeys is ethically troubling—but vital

Few humans in their right mind would volunteer to plug today’s instruments and sensors into their living brains. Doing so often involves having someone drill into your skull, with the risk of infection or brain damage. And so neuroscientists seeking to understand human brains turn to humanity’s nearest animal relatives, primates.

The controversy has had an uneven impact round the world. In Europe and America, under pressure from animal-rights groups, the amount of neuroscience research carried out on monkeys is flat or declining. Both places have or are considering laws requiring an end to their use. ButAmerica and Europe should narrow this gap. Allowing China to forge ahead in brain science without mounting a comparable programme of research would be strategically foolish.

And were laboratories in China and Japan to come up with treatments for neurological diseases such as Alzheimer’s as a result of their studies of monkeys’ brains, it would be near impossible for Western countries to refuse to buy them to treat their citizens. Leaving others to do the dirty work of generating knowledge using means you consider to be unethical, while at the same time encouraging it by adding to demand is not taking the moral high ground. It is hypocrisy.

In Europe and America, we have covid delaying research. 🤦‍♂️

I wonder if they first tested covid on monkeys before unleashing it on the world

'But the Chinese government is doing it' has to be one of the most ridiculous excuses for acting in inhumane and morally impermissible ways.

Thats what Neuralink is doing in USA. Just ask elonmusk

use XJP brain🤬

But should monkeys be used as Guinea pigs, for whatever those scientists want to achieve.

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They will unleash a new pandamic where ppl will behave like monkeys

Don't worry ...America is supporting terrorist group tplf who use children as war soldier in Tigray. You haven't heard about it yes!😔

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Let the Chinese fall behind—maybe they could spend the monies on paying reparations to the world because of COVID....

I'd donate my body to neuroscience research, but I don't a have brain to experiment on.

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