Confusing Story About Euthanized Monkeys At NASA Ames
Revealed: all 27 monkeys held at Nasa research center killed on single day in 2019, The Guardian
“A total of 27 primates were euthanized by administrated drugs on 2 February last year at Nasa’s Ames research center in California’s Silicon Valley, it has emerged. The monkeys were ageing and 21 of them had Parkinson’s, according to documents released under freedom of information laws. … A Nasa spokesperson said: “Nasa does not have any non-human primates in Nasa or Nasa-funded facilities.”
Keith’s note: This confuses me: “Nasa does not have any non-human primates in Nasa or Nasa-funded facilities.” Does this mean NASA is saying that it never had these monkeys in a NASA facility or, since they were euthanized last year, NASA no longer has any primates onsite? If you Google LifeSource BioMedical (the company that took care of the monkeys) you see that they are located inside the gate in building 261-1 at NASA Ames – so they were most certainly inside a NASA facility onsite at a NASA field center. Confused.
And the Guardian (from which all the other stories were taken) didn’t see fit to publish the FOIAd documents which would explain more. I think the connection is more that the firm had some sort of facility at Ames (from the Guardian article)
Companies that have research animals tend not to be very forthcoming about any of it.
Yea this is a story that was hampered by missing information that the author tried to fill in with what they had on hand. I am an actual space biologist so I know that this is more complex an issue than this story would have you think. There are lots of rules.
I wonder what human primates they have stored away ?