Ex-NIH Director Concealed Problems With ‘Pointless’ Baby Monkey Abuse Studies, Kept Funding Them Anyway
1 sourceUpdated Jul 1, 2026
Former National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins used a private email to discuss an NIH lab’s history of traumatizing baby monkeys as he sought to contain a brewing scandal and kept funding the experiments…
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