When the National Institutes of Health (NIH) psychological torture of baby monkeys threatened to become a scandal ten years ago, then-NIH director Francis Collins and his men strategized an approach to the issue via private email. But never discovered it.
However, thanks to the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) who obtained emails through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit in 2020, as well as the daily caller reported via email on Friday, Collins and the company's repair manager. I will. It's currently exposed.
Monkey Business at NIH
For more than 30 years, Stephen Suomi conducted experiments on milk-splitting macaques at the Maryland NIH Institute. These experiments intentionally breed monkeys as predisposing to mental illness, separating newborn monkeys from their mothers, scaring them with loud noises, and caged them with incompetent mothers.
Sumi's experiments are said to have been designed to mimic human child abuse so that scientists can better understand how it affects them.
PETA began putting pressure on the NIH in 2014 after obtaining video footage of the experiment. Part of this includes researchers' laughter at the pain of monkeys. Ultimately, the group recruited primatologist Jane Goodall to appeal to Collins to finish the experiment.
The emails obtained by PETA, covered in April-July 2014, demonstrate the NIH's determination to do the minimum necessary to put the scandal behind, protecting Collins from all liability. The email was sent via a private email account. This was also adopted by former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Anthony Fauci and his subordinates to avoid the discovery of FOIA.
On May 1, 2014, Goodall notified Collins that PETA had submitted a monkey video online and asked viewers to pressure them to stop the NIH. The email chain she forwarded included a link to the video.
After watching the video, Collins emailed scientists who were well versed in the study of non-human primates. Collins told scientists whose names have been edited in the released email that he was “are quite troubling with the video.” He had heard that Sumi was “very respected by his peers,” but he confessed:
As I struggle with what to do here, your own observations are ringing in my ears (sic) about the meaninglessness of many studies being done in non-human primates.
The scientist responded, in his opinion, that Sumi's “research does not have a truly important impact on human life.”
Covers Collins Caboose
Similarly, then-Chief of Mental Health Tom Insel told Collins' top aide and then top aide of Science, Outreach and Policy at the time Kathy Hudson. Hudson emailed Collins. “He called it the third rating and said it was time for Sumi to retire.”
Nevertheless, as a fellow agent, Insel knew what had won top priorities. “I doubt we'll hear from PETA when it makes this public,” he told Hudson. “Now we're plotting our response.”
The plot began quickly.
Hudson's advice to Collins was to “stay far away” from the issue, pretending he had never seen the video.
“The storyline is getting this video. She wrote on May 24, 2014.
In late June 2014, Hudson told Collins that he had decided to meet with PETA representatives. On July 1, 2014, after the meeting ended, she advised Collins not to participate in emails on either Goodall or PETA subjects.
Two days later, Hudson decided to put an end to the discussion with PETA, thanking Collins for the meeting with her, telling her, “Then we'll be dark.”
Collins agreed with her approach, adding that he “keep silent.”
PETA Post urges protest
However, PETA was not satisfied with Hudson's response, and in September 2014, it began protesting the experiment for several months.
By January, Congress had been briefed on the subject by PETA, and the NIH issued a statement defending an experiment that contradicted the advice scientists personally gave Collins.
“These studies” declared that “cannot be performed in humans and require the use of animal studies to carefully separate experiential, genetic and environmental factors.”
Finally, in December 2015, “NIH directed Suomi to phase out the experiments, but continued to fund the analysis of existing data,” reported Daily Caller. “The NIH argued that the move was a budget decision and had nothing to do with the PETA campaign.”
Regardless of your opinion on PETA or Suomi's experiments, these emails further strengthen Collins' reputation as a bureaucrat who is interested in protecting him and his agency status rather than following authentic science. . Collins resumed gain-of-function experiments that are likely to produce Covid-19 in 2017, and was told that two men conspired with prominent scientists who opposed the lockdown exchanged personal emails with Fauci. It was already known. Fauci also kept private emails to keep the funds for Niad's gain of functionality research secret, so he also kept the experiments of torture baby animals, i.e. puppies.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cuts out his work for him when it comes to cleaning up corruption with NIH and NIAID. Congress should simplify the issue and close both unconstitutional institutions.
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