The federal government has spent almost $100M on monkey brain studies since 2007, including $16M on tests in which scientists tried to scare the monkeys with rubber snakes and spiders — and lawmakers are demanding to know why.
Congress has been urging the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the NIH and the NIMH, to reduce testing on primates, and lawmakers say the videos have only heightened their sense of urgency.
"We've made progress, but these disturbing psychological tests on monkeys that have gone on for decades highlight the need for greater oversight of NIH efforts to reduce primate testing," Roybal-Allard said. "Monkeys are used in research because of their marked similarities to humans with respect to anatomy, physiology, and behavior," the agency said in a statement to NBC News.
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