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Of caged monkeys and scientific men

15 Apr 05:55am

Filed under: John Gluck, Monkeys, Science, Weekend Punch

A week or so ago, in New Mexico, I met a man who spent decades interfering, on a scientifically aggressive level, with monkeys in a university laboratory.

Man among the monkeys

That man is Dr John Gluck, of Albuquerque. Those monkeys taught him a great deal. About himself.

Gluck trained as a primatologist at the University of Wisconsin and ended up at the University of New Mexico, in Albuquerque. He mostly studied the rhesus monkey, also known as the rhesus macaque.

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Scotchfinger says:

05:00pm | 16/04/12

cats are cruel. Particularly fat cats. Read more »
Georgia says:

01:36pm | 16/04/12

Animal models have never been validated scientifically e.g. proven that they deliver a more predictable result than the probability of getting tails in a coin toss!! With the advanced non-animal methods we now have, ones that tailor medicines and treatments to individuals, we are using the wrong method entirely to… Read more »

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