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mk  ·  4535 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: NIH Recommends that Chimps be Retired from Research

I agree that this is the way to go.

Although there are no viable replacements for some animal models, I can't think of many situations were chimpanzees can provide particularly valuable data. Ethical considerations aside, just getting a large enough group of chimps so that the statistics are valid is prohibitivly expensive.