Attitudes towards experimenting on monkeys are diverging

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Probing the workings of the brain is a 21st-century equivalent to exploring the farthest reaches of the planet. And it will be China who leads the way

The impact was immediate and lasting. Around 800 people massed outside Dr Logothetis’s lab, demanding an end to his work with monkeys. He was called a monster and a murderer. He and his family received death threats. He faced charges of breaking German animal-welfare laws. So in 2020 he announced that his laboratory would move to China.

Campaigners argue that no animal should be used for research because they cannot give informed consent. Julia Baines, who works on science policy at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals The brain is so poorly understood that looking at its activity in living creatures is the only way to fathom how it works, says Dr Treue. Dissecting dead brains produces only limited information. Brains only really make sense when active. Few humans would volunteer to have electrodes implanted in their brains. The consent of any who did would be suspect.

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