The Importance of Research on Monkeys

Animal rights activists, and others who don't quite fit that label, such as Matthew Scully, excoriate scientists for conducting research on animals.

Some go so far as to call researchers sadistic, torturers, and other such calumnies. PETA animal rightists often lie by claiming no human good comes from such research.

But without research on monkeys, rats, and other animals, much human suffering would never be ameliorated, because sometimes researchers just need to use a living animal before s...