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Scientific Sadism

This just in!  Existing forever on the verge of starvation doesn't help to prolong your life.


"For 25 years, the rhesus monkeys were kept semistarved, lean and hungry. The males’ weights were so low they were the equivalent of a 6-foot-tall man who tipped the scales at just 120 to 133 pounds."

However, the study failed.  Starved rhesus monkeys didn't live longer than their (non-obese) well-fed counterparts.  Still,

"The study is continuing until the youngest monkeys are 22 years old. While the data pretty much rule out any notion that the low-calorie diet will increase average lifespans, there still is a chance that the study might find that the diet increases the animals’ maximum lifespan", said Julie A. Mattison

So, they failed at their experiment, but decided to continue to ruin the lives of more monkeys just to see what might happen.

Can you imagine not feeding something that is desperately hungry?  I know I can't.  Can you imagine doing that to a pet for a single month?  Even that would be tantamount to torture.  They have been doing this to monkeys since *1987*, and are set to continue.

Again, like the last one I shared, the article doesn't go into any detail about the feelings of the animals involved.  It only focuses on how these results might be of interest.  ...Because everyone knows that America has a huge population of anorexic people who are itching for answers.

That is an example of scientific sadism at work.  I hope I can perform some experiments some day.  "What is the average length of time one of these animal researchers can live when being subject to daily beatings with a baseball bat?"
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