Brookhaven Lab may experiment on monkeys
Quick ReadThe experiment would expose squirrel monkeys to levels of radiation similar to those encountered in spacecraft traveling to Mars.
Photo credit: AP File / Jan. 2001 | 'Filbert', a baby squirrel monkey, rides the back of his mother, 'Meg', at the Philadelphia Zoo.
PETA members protest outside Brookhaven Lab
An unusual NASA-funded experiment proposed by a Harvard scientist to expose as many as 18 monkeys to radiation could put Brookhaven National Laboratory, a possible site of the study, at the center of a controversy.
The experiment would expose squirrel monkeys to levels of radiation similar to those encountered in spacecraft traveling to Mars to help determine what might happen to astronauts...
