A leading animal rights group is accusing Pfizer of running afoul of its own standards in the handling of research monkeys. trib.al/VzvF1WR

Here is my new OpED piece about the importance of primate neuroscience research for the future of AI : wsj.com/opinion/the-future-o…

Let’s just say I have my sources. I don’t necessarily think they’re going to stop it, but it’s extremely expensive and that makes it a candidate for the chopping block. Also, it’s controversial. The new trend elsewhere has been to maintain primates out of country where risk of infections is lower and cost of doing research is far lower as well. I know, researchers that maintain their mice in Singapore for a tiny fraction of the cost and then ship them in for experiments. Again at a fraction of the cost to maintain them at universities here. But not everyone can do that. Depends on the work you’re doing.

I doubt @hubermanlab or proponents of ketamine use know that without NHP research, that drug would not have been discovered It will be shortsighted to stop NHP research in US because "it is expensive" when a few NHPs may provide far more valuable data than thousands of mice