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This is a story that has not broken mainstream media-you
are privileged to learn it first through the vast networking done by
those who care about animals. Yerkes hired a vivisector as its new
director, one who slices monkey's brains then makes the monkeys do
memory tests. The animal concerned community learned this before the
public....Yerkes has leaks who are sympathetic to AR. Here is a press
release that is circulating ....PLEASE PASS ON THE NEWS & take any
actions you feel appropriate....letters, calls to Yerkes, media...the
web site included in the press release has a wealth of info.
Yerkes Primate Center is Dumping Ground for Third-Rate
Experimenter
Emory University will announce that Stuart Zola will be
named Director of its Yerkes Primate Center effective September 1, 2001.
Former Director, Tom Insel, M.D., was transferred to another area as
Yerkes received national coverage concerning the 1997 death of a young
researcher; callous comments by Insel about the researcher's death to
ABC's 20/20 and exposure to the same deadly virus by a second researcher
during OSHA's on-site investigation. A third exposure was announced
earlier this year. Tom Gordon, Ph.D., a long-time employee at Yerkes was
named interim Director.
Stuart Zola (Zola-Morgan) has an established history of
animal experimentation and is leaving the University of California at
San Diego to join the Yerkes team. Zola has been conducting the same
experiment since March 1, 1983 and has failed to produce anything to
help sick people. This is not surprising since Zola has stated :
"Part of what's driving me is not the fact that I want
to develop a cure for brain
damage. It's just that I want to be able to understand
how this all works. I hope
others will be able to use what we find in a practical
and clinical way. But the
major reason I'm doing this is that I want to know." ~
Dr. Stuart Zola
Local activist, Jean Barnes stated 'Zola's statement
sounds as if his experiments are more of a hobby than really working to
help sick people. Sick people need serious help; not quacks or
charlatans in laboratories'. Other activists question why Emory and
Yerkes have settled for Zola, who is not a medical doctor, but a Ph.D
and deficient in important training only an M.D. can supply. Perhaps all
these unfortunate incidents have reduced Yerkes to a third-rate facility
and a 'dumping ground'?
Pulitzer Prize winner, Deborah Blum interviewed Zola and
described Zola's experiments in her book, 'The Monkey Wars' as follows:
"Zola-Morgan's first job is to brace the head. There is
no wiggle room in brain
surgery. He opens the monkey's mouth and inserts a metal
T-bar, the top of
the tee catching behind the sharp canine teeth. Two
metal prongs, blunt-ended,
grip the area just outside the edge of the animal's eye
sockets. With teeth and
eyes anchored, the monkey's head is held rigidly still,
awaiting the first cut.
Holding a scalpel, Zola-Morgan traces a T-cut onto the
top of the head, a line
behind the brow-bone, a perpendicular cut down the back
of the head......He
rolls the severed skin away from the muscle. And the
tough muscle holds hard
and tight to the skull, resisting his efforts to pull it
away. It is a good hour until
he can see the left cheekbone, the pinkish-white curve
of the zygomatic arch.
Still, he has to free it further, hitching a square of
gauze behind the bone,
dragging it up and down until the muscle is polished off
and the arch stands
clear. Then, using a drill that fills the room with the
whine of metal on bone, he
breaks out the arch. He cuts on, opening a path through
the muscle to the skull.
Then more drilling, making a walnut-sized hole in the
skull itself. Then carefully,
he chips away the bony skull to expose the tissue that
covers the brain, the thin,
gray rubbery-looking sheet of the dura. And then the
whole process must be
repeated on the other side of the head.'
Zola, in the 18 years he has received our tax dollars to
fund experiments on monkey brains, has produced and discovered NOTHING
to help sick people. Repeat - NOTHING. Zola has written papers, attended
meetings and even does magic tricks to entertain children but the
scientific facts
are that Zola has squandered real opportunities to help
sick people and raided the public till. But again, Zola has stated he is
not interested in helping sick people. Emory endorses useless research
like Zola's because it garners our federal tax dollars to pay Emory's
administrative costs and salaries for those performing experiments at
Emory and Yerkes.
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