{"id":531,"date":"2008-01-15T04:13:32","date_gmt":"2008-01-15T08:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=531"},"modified":"2008-01-15T04:13:32","modified_gmt":"2008-01-15T08:13:32","slug":"531","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/15\/531\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sanitization of Animal Research Propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apart from the moral and legal implications of this animal research with a monkey, what’s so interesting about today’s New York Times<\/em> report, “Monkey’s Thoughts Propel Robot, a Step That May Help Humans,”<\/a> is the way in which it is presented. <\/p>\n

In the online version and underneath the heading are two photographs of the researchers with the caption — “THE PLAYERS Dr. Miguel A. L. Nicolelis, left, at Duke University, and Gordon Cheng in Kyoto, Japan, with the robot.” — and a video. Well, a video of sorts.<\/p>\n

This is because the video is an animation of a monkey on a treadmill which is interposed with video of the robot walking on a treadmill. So, we don’t see video of the monkey — a living animal — but we do see video of the inanimate machine. <\/p>\n

Other than the profound implications of this presentation — the animate becomes inanimate and the inanimate becomes animate — what else can we conclude other than the researchers didn’t want us to see animal research involving a monkey walking on a treadmill?<\/p>\n

Well, at the risk of the Grumpy Vegan being accused of sensationalism, let’s please note that the video is credited by The New York Times<\/em> to Duke University. What a shame the paper coluldn’t see how it is being used.<\/p>\n

Propaganda, anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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