Slowy

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[–] Slowy@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Machines gotta eat

[–] Slowy@lemmy.world 35 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think they did believe that was a strong possibility. I thought her video was a dead man’s switch release that she would prevent from going out if they made it out of international waters.

[–] Slowy@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Unfortunately there is a legal requirement from a lot of countries that any new vaccine released for human use there must be trialed on non-human primates prior to human clinical trials, and that is what many of these monkeys are being used for. The best way to reduce or eliminate the use of primates in biomedical research is to pressure government health agencies to drop this requirement (and other testing requirements involving NHPs).