ChimpanzeeBY BRADYPUS VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
A panel of scientists commissioned by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to help decide the fate of 186 chimpanzees slated to be returned to active medical research after ten years in retirement, is being accused of bias by the Humane Society of the United States.
In a letter last month to the Institute of Medicine (IOM), the health arm of the National Academy of Sciences, which organized the panel, the Humane Society’s chief scientific officer wrote that the “proposed committee appears to be designed to deliver a quick report supporting a future need for chimpanzee research, and not to produce an accurate and objective assessment of the issue.”
The NIH came under fire from New Mexico politicians and three US Senators in January after ...
