Harvard study raises ethical issues

[Catherine]

Margaret Livingstone and Harvard University have published a study about maternal bonding. They took newborns from mother monkeys and studied the mother's reactions to the loss. This has generated a great deal of anger against using animals in research. The claim of the researcher is that this will help human mothers who have lost their babies. These kinds of studies have been done before. So, no new information was generated. Research and results in animals seldom really help humans. The reactions of one species do not translate to another species.
Monkeys were made to suffer for nothing. Groups like PETA have condemned this work. One issue raised is that animals cannot give consent. Cruel things are done to them. Since they can't refuse, we need to refuse for them. 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/monkey-stud...l-testing/

The scientist thinks she is pretty special because so many people are against her. She is not special; she is just cruel and callous. We already know how monkeys react to loss. There are more than enough cases of natural loss that could be studied. If you want to know how humans react to loss, talk to humans.
There are enough cultural differences in humans that studying one group of humans does not give answers about all humans. 
There needs to be some regulation of scientific studies so that they are not just pointless acts of cruelty. It is time to end animal testing. It is not giving us any results that humans can use, and it leaves the door open for needlessly cruel studies like this one.