A presentation by an animal researcher Thomas Clarkson at Wake Forest University features photographs showing distressed or frightened monkeys who are dressed up, with mocking captions. Some vivisectors evidently find torturing and killing animals amusing.

 

The monkeys in question were subjected to psychological stress by unnamed methods, put to sleep, and dissected. All this was done in the process of research on menopause. These monkeys were killed so that we could better understand menopause.

 

Article:

http://ourcompass.wordpress.com/2010/09/22/researcher-laughs-at-monkeys-he-kills/

 

http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/09/17/animal-experimentation-funny-yes-says-this-researcher/

 

 

SAMPLE LETTER:

 

I was disgusted to learn that a powerpoint presentation used by a researcher named Thomas Clarkson at a conference held by the National Institute on Aging ridiculed the animals that had been tortured in the experiment.

 

Animals in laboratories are kept in unnatural conditions, suffer pain or distress, even death, in futile animal experimentation. Testing on animals is cruel and unethical. Results attained from experiments on animals do not accurately portray their influence on humans. Animal tests are unreliable because animals do not react in the same way as humans to various drugs and diseases. In many instances, the results can in fact be misleading, having disastrous consequences for humans. Animal testing is unpredictable - many drug treatments pass the animal testing stage only to be discarded once the human testing yields unfavorable results. Drugs that do pass the human testing stage most often include a number of possible side-effects, in many instances even death.

 

Excellent animal-free alternative research methods exist. Unlike crude, archaic animal tests, non-animal methods have proven to be efficient and reliable. Non-animal methods usually take less time to complete, cost only a fraction of what the animal experiments that they replace cost, and are not plagued with species differences that make extrapolation difficult or impossible. Effective, affordable, and humane research methods include studies of human populations, volunteers, and patients as well as sophisticated in vitro, genomic, and computer-modeling techniques.

 

I ask that your university stops animal testing and becomes a progressive institution in non-animal research.

 

Sincerely,

 

 

SEND TO:

 

Preferably send a PERSONAL letter to Clarkson, commenting on his sick sense of humour and his sadistic experiments (note that Clarkson is, for that reason, not included in the e-mail block further down, so you'll have to ADD him if you want to send the same sample letter).

 

Thomas Clarkson, D.V.M.

http://www.wfubmc.edu/Research/Comparative-Medicine/Thomas-B--Clarkson,-DVM.htm

Email: tclarkso@wfubmc.edu

 

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Wake Forest University

webteam@wfubmc.edu

 

Contact information to the leadership/board members currently missing/not found. This page contains their names and phone numbers (if you would like to call):

http://www.wfubmc.edu/Leadership/

 

Research departments with e-mails (note: I do NOT know which ones of these are directly involved in animal testing):

 

Full list of research departments including phone numbers: http://www.wfubmc.edu/Research/A-to-Z-List-of-Departments.htm

 

Animal Resources Program

arpoffice@wfubmc.edu

 

Biochemistry

biochemrecruit@wfubmc.edu

 

Biomedical Engineering

kwatson@wfubmc.edu

 

Cancer Biology

bcrouse@wfubmc.edu

 

CCOP Research Base

resbase@wfubmc.edu

 

Comparative Medicine

jkaplan@wfubmc.edu

 

Pathology Department

ajgarvin@wfubmc.edu

 

Society for Neuroscience

sfn@wfubmc.edu

 

Tumor Biology

mwilling@wfubmc.edu

 

 

E-mail block 1:

 

webteam@wfubmc.edu , arpoffice@wfubmc.edu , biochemrecruit@wfubmc.edu , kwatson@wfubmc.edu , bcrouse@wfubmc.edu , resbase@wfubmc.edu  jkaplan@wfubmc.edu , ajgarvin@wfubmc.edu , sfn@wfubmc.edu , mwilling@wfubmc.edu , 

 

 

Additional emails, relevance unchecked (the most relevant one here is Applegate):

 

Administrative Director

Marcy Poletti, R.N., M.S.N.

336-716-9755; Fax: 336-716-5055

E-mail: mpoletti@wfubmc.edu

 

Program Director

Charles E. McCall, M.D.

336-716-4584; Fax: 336-716-3825

E-mail: chmcall@wfubmc.edu

 

Principal Investigator

William B. Applegate, M.D.

336-716-3430; Fax: 336-716-5139

E-mail: wapplega@wfubmc.edu

 

Associate Program Director

John R. Crouse III, M.D.

336-716-2076; Fax: 336-716-6164

E-mail: jrcrouse@wfubmc.edu

 

Associate Program Director

Richard B. Weinberg, M.D.

336-716-4638; Fax: 336-716-6376

E-mail: weinberg@wfubmc.edu

 

Associate Program Director

Jeff D. Williamson, M.D.

336-713-8583; Fax: 336-713-8800

E-mail: jwilliam@wfubmc.edu

 

Research Subject Advocate

Susan Margitic, M.S.

336-716-5647; Fax: 336-716-0395

E-mail: smargitic@wfubmc.edu

 

GCRC Advisory Committee Chairperson

R. Duncan Hite, M.D.

336-716-9442; Fax: 336-716-7277

E-mail: dhite@wfubmc.edu

 

Research Nurse Manager

Marcy Poletti, R.N., M.S.N.

336-716-9755; Fax: 336-716-5055

E-mail: mpoletti@wfubmc.edu

 

Bionutrition Research Manager

Linda Easter, R.D., M.S., L.D.N.

336-716-6355; Fax: 336-716-5055

E-mail: leaster@wfubmc.edu

 

Processing Lab Manager

Marcia Burris

336-716-2676; Fax: 336-716-5055

E-mail: mburris@wfubmc.edu

 

Molecular Genetics Core Director

Donald W. Bowden, Ph.D.

336-713-7507; Fax: 336-716-5055

E-mail: dbowden@wfubmc.edu

 

Biostatistician

Timothy Morgan, Ph.D.

336-713-3829; Fax: 336-713-3806

E-mail: tomorgan@wfubmc.edu

 

Informatics Core Manager

Robert Amoroso

336-716-7786; Fax: 336-716-5055

E-mail: bamoroso@wfubmc.edu

 

 

E-mail block 2:

 

mpoletti@wfubmc.edu , chmcall@wfubmc.edu  , wapplega@wfubmc.edu  , jrcrouse@wfubmc.edu , weinberg@wfubmc.edu  , jwilliam@wfubmc.edu , smargitic@wfubmc.edu  , dhite@wfubmc.edu  , mpoletti@wfubmc.edu  , leaster@wfubmc.edu  , mburris@wfubmc.edu  , dbowden@wfubmc.edu  , tomorgan@wfubmc.edu  , bamoroso@wfubmc.edu  ,