Dr. Katherine Roe: Harvard’s House Of Horrors

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These animals are being held captive in a laboratory They have none of what they need for their own physical and mental well-being And there is an enormous amount of research suggesting that the biology and the behavior of animals in laboratories is nothing like even those animals in the wild I mean right down to their heart rate and their core temperature and their microbiome So basically you can t trust data from a mouse in a laboratory to reflect on a mouse in a field So it really has no chance of being related to us – Dr Katherine Roe Dr Roe is a neuroscientist and PETA s chief of science advancement and outreach She completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins University and had an impressive eight-year stint as a clinical neuroscientist at the National Institutes of Health Today she s working to end cruel animal experiments including the recently exposed maternal-and sensory-deprivation experiments being conducted on infant monkeys at Harvard Medical School You would expect Harvard University and in this case this is at Harvard Medical School to be conducting the most cutting edge the most human relevant the most ethical research on the planet That is not the case with these experiments Dr Katherine Roe LINKS https headlines peta org research-modernization-new-deal utm source PETA Vanity 20URL utm medium Promo utm campaign 0720 viv PETA Vanity 20URL PETAorg-RMD https headlines peta org harvard-baby-monkeys https www cbsnews com news monkey-study-harvard-reignites-debate-animal-testing Click here to visit this podcast episode