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Your Tax Dollars at Work: PETA Protests Weird Animal Sex Research Projects

Posted on | December 2, 2013 | 20 Comments

Apparently, if you’re an official NIH-funded scientist, you can get paid to do things that sadistic serial killers do in their spare time:

1. Mice and rats electrically stimulated after penises mutilated and injected with chemicals
Location: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
Experiments: Experimenters cut all the skin off the penises of live mice and rats, electrically stimulated their penises with electrodes for up to five minutes, and injected their penises with various chemicals to see if they’d sustain an erection. The animals were then killed, and their penises were cut apart.
Cost to taxpayers: $2,792,144

2. Mice’s sex drive tested after brains burned
Location: Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
Experiments: Experimenters locked female mice into restraint devices, drilled holes into their skulls, and burned lesions into their brains. The females were then presented with urine samples from castrated and intact males, and the amount of time they spent sniffing each urine sample was recorded. In a subsequent experiment, the females were placed with males and the females’ sexual receptivity as indicated by their back-arching behavior was observed and rated. All of the mice were killed and dissected.
Cost to taxpayers: $1,505,173

3. Rats’ sex drive tested following Prozac injections and removal of ovaries
Location: Texas Woman’s University, Denton, Texas
Experiments: Experimenters injected female rats with antidepressant drugs and placed them with male hamsters. The females’ sexual receptivity, as indicated by the downward arching of their backs, was observed and measured. The experimenters then manipulated the female rats, surgically removing their ovaries and injecting sex hormones, and again observed the rats’ sexual behavior.
Cost to taxpayers: $2,024,949

4. Hamsters’ sex drive tested following brain damage
Location: University of California–Berkeley, Berkeley, California
Experiments: Experimenters cut into the skulls of female hamsters and implanted tubes into their brains and pumps into their scalps. Saline or hormones related to sexual behavior were pumped into the females’ brains, and the animals were videotaped as they were able to see, smell, and hear—but not touch—a male hamster. The sexual receptivity of the females to male hamsters was measured through their vaginal scent markings. Experimenters used brushes to stimulate the female hamsters, and the extent of sexual receptivity as indicated by their back-arching behavior was observed and rated. The animals were then killed, and their brains were dissected.
Cost to taxpayers: $1,817,502

While I’m not a supporter of the animal-rights movement, I’d probably be opposed to taxpayer funding for these evil experiments even if they were performed using Amanda Marcotte as a research subject.

 

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20 Responses to “Your Tax Dollars at Work: PETA Protests Weird Animal Sex Research Projects”

  1. rsmccain
    December 2nd, 2013 @ 12:08 pm

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  2. rsmccain
    December 2nd, 2013 @ 12:11 pm

    Government funds experiments so cruel .. http://t.co/RRa2sdTK1w … I wouldn’t even wish them on @AmandaMarcotte!

  3. MrEvilMatt
    December 2nd, 2013 @ 12:13 pm

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    December 2nd, 2013 @ 12:13 pm

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  5. CHideout
    December 2nd, 2013 @ 12:13 pm

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  6. jwbrown1969
    December 2nd, 2013 @ 12:13 pm

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  7. Lockestep1776
    December 2nd, 2013 @ 12:13 pm

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  8. Citzcom
    December 2nd, 2013 @ 12:13 pm

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  9. rsmccain
    December 2nd, 2013 @ 12:25 pm

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  10. Zohydro
    December 2nd, 2013 @ 12:50 pm

    If Marcotte had a spine, she’d volunteer and fund it herself…

  11. tasgolabruner
    December 2nd, 2013 @ 1:21 pm

    Your #NIH #TaxDollars at Work: Bizarre #Sex Experiments on #Animals. I have the documents PETA found, contact me. http://t.co/J5BEyCrSY3

  12. Steve Skubinna
    December 2nd, 2013 @ 2:46 pm

    “…even if they were performed using Amanda Marcotte as a research subject.”

    But what if it were consensual? She is, I presume, above whatever the age of consent is for her species?

  13. concern00
    December 2nd, 2013 @ 3:20 pm

    …and left care more about the torture of rodents than the mutilation and slaughter of babies.

  14. richard mcenroe
    December 2nd, 2013 @ 4:23 pm

    The Australian commenter/critic Clive James, reviewing a BBC documentary on scientific animal abuse, once wrote, “What the scientists found out about the cats wasn’t a patch on what the cats found out about the scientists…”

  15. Dianna Deeley
    December 2nd, 2013 @ 5:33 pm

    I’m in complete agreement. These are revolting examples, and I cannot believe they’re taking place in respectable labs.

    What on earth do they think they’re going to prove, or treat, with torment of this sort?

  16. Mm
    December 2nd, 2013 @ 5:39 pm

    I’m with you. This is revolting and immoral, if true, and should be stopped.

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  18. Eric Ashley
    December 3rd, 2013 @ 10:24 am

    Remember, there is no fat in the gov’t budget; its been slashed to the bone; and your pschyos in charge need more tax money.

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  20. Alessandra
    December 5th, 2013 @ 2:52 am

    Thanks for bringing attention to this horrible practice!