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editorial | HARVARD’S ANIMAL RESEARCH

Spell out ethical standards

  January 23, 2012

Since opening its New England Primate Research Center in 1966, Harvard University has insisted it maintains high ethical practices, but won’t precisely say what those practices are. The reason, officials say, is fear of angering animal-rights extremists who sometimes resort to violence. Instead, the university dwells on the center’s groundbreaking research into cancers, drug addiction, AIDS, and Parkinson’s Disease.

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