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The following is a report from United Action for Animals, lnc., a non-profit organization dedicated to
the protection of laboratory animals.
The National Science
Foundation, an agency in
the Executive branch of
government, has been sup
porting research in psy
chobiology for a quarter of
a century. The difference
between vivisection and
psychobiology is that in
vivisection the animals
have some hope of dying,
either from the experiment
or by being killed by the
experimenters sometime
afterward. In psychobiol
ogy, the aminals are
tortured and tormented
throughout their entire
lives. In many experiments
the experimenters use in
tensive and ingenious
methods to make the
animals neurotic or to drive
them insane.
Another name commonly
substituted for psychobi
ology is "animal behavior",
which doesn't mean what
most people think it
means. "Animal behavior"
in the laboratories means
behavior modification,
known in humans, espe
cially prisoners pf war, as
brain-washing. Generally,
it means forcing animals,
often by pain, fear, and/or
mutilation, to commit un
natural acts.
Psychobiology was im
ported into the U.S. early in
this century from the Soviet
Union where Ivan Pavlov
was conducting his condi
tioned-reflex experiments
on dogs. Today, students
at institutions all over the
country earn their PhD's
and other academic titles
by mutilating, torturing and
tormenting animals in this
brain-washing "animal Be
havior" research. But the
staggering growth of psy
chobiology did not occur
spontaneously. It might
never have taken place at
all, except for the multi
million dollar Congres
sional subsidies to the
National Science Founda
tion that have been used to
nurture psychobiology
since 1950, not only in re
search but in teaching. By
Vivisection
subsidizing the teaching of
psychobiology Congress
has contributed substan
tially to the decline and fall
of education in this coun
try.
Although a long string of
agencies, both civilian and
military, already existed,
Congress established the
NSF "To promote the
progress of science; to
advance the national health
prosperity, and welfare; to
secure the national de
fense; and other pur
poses." The functions of
the NSF included "to
initiate and support basic
scientific research and
programs to strengthen
scientific research poten
tial and science education
programs..." and "to award
scholarships and graduate
fellowships..."
Curiously, while one of
NSF's stated objectives
was to "advance the na
tional health" while so
many other "health" agen
cies already existed, the
NSF frankly says that it
does NOT support projects
in clinical medicine, but
supports "basic research"
without limit. Basic re
search is research which
has no goal - that is, it is
not expected to produce
anything useful.
Ironically, the NSF, so
devoted to the aimless
mutilation, torture and
torment of animals in the
name of psychobiology or
animal behavior, has now
been named as science
advisor to the President.
It's not hard to guess what
kind of advice the President
will be getting. But it was
Congress that established
the NSF in the first place,
and it is Congress which
must bear the responsibil
ity for what the NSF is
doing. Why does Congress
object to letting the NSF
spend its funds for socially
useful purposes, but offers
no objection to NSF's
continued psychobiologi
cal brain-washing re
search?
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As an example of the
strange ways of Congress,
on February 8, 1974, an
article in SCIENCE stated
that when NSF officials
went to Congress in De
cember asking for 68.2
million more than the
6577.6 million the already
got, Senator William
Proxmire(D-Wis.), Chair
man of the Senate sub
committee which oversees
appropriations for the NSF,
"queried"the NSF about
some of its projects. The
article said :"Instead of
encouraging NSF's applied
(useful) projects outside of
basic (no-goal) science,
Proxmire argued that many
of them seem to belong
more properly under juris
diction of other agencies."
Proxmire listed projects
ranging from history to
transportation, asking why
these were not being
funded by other agencies
instead of by the NSF. This
point was not lost on the
SCIENCE writer, who stat
ed:"lt is relevant to ask, in
addition, how basic
science fared with the
Senator.. Like other politi
cians in the past, Proxmire
seemed to take NSF at its
word when it comes to
basic science." The
SCIENCE writer was cor
rect. Congress historically
has been reluctant to
interfere with what eu
phemistically is called
"basic" research. They're
afraid of argeted, useful
research.
The public has no way of
knowing that on the one
hand Congress may be
economy-minded and pen
ny-pinching in areas of
crucial social need while on
the other hand, or with the
other hand, it lavishly
subsidizes such "basic"
research as psychobiology,
otherwise known as "an
imal behavior", without
letting the public know
what is really being done
with the money. The people
can't object to what they
don't know. On December
3, 1973, the New York
TIMES reported on a survey
which showed that a maj
ority of the American
people are "deeply disillu
sioned and disenchanted",
and believe that "there is
too much secrecy in
government". As an exam
ple of that secrecy, how
many people know that the
huge sum of money
Congress has squandered
for a quarter of a century on
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the Student Government Office.
NSF's psychobiological
torture and torment of
animals probably could
have provided every major
city in this country with a
modern, efficient and safe
transportation system?
People who find out the
truth might well conclude
that they have been and
continue to be victims of
unarmed robbery, perpe
trated by the very men and
women they elected as
their representatives in
Congress. It's hard to
understand why Congress
continues to blindly waste
billions of tax dollars on
this "no-goal", "can't-do-a
job", "basic" animal exper
imentation.
This report will give the
reader an idea of what was
really done with hundreds
of millions of dollars in
public funds that could
have been spent for social
ly useful purposes instead
of for the torture of
animals, had Congress
fulfilled its duty under the
Constitution to appropriate
public funds and determine
HOW THEY SHALL BE
SPENT. It should be noted
that the National Science
Foundation is not the only
agency supporting psy
chobiological research. All
of the Federal "health"
agencies, including the
Veterans Administration,
the military Establishment,
the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration,
etc., are also subsidizing
the torment of animals in
psychobiology. Fol!lowing
are a few brief abstracts
which illustrate both re
search and education in
psychobiology, more com
monly known as"animal
behavior", paid for by the
NSF.
EDUCATION. Twenty
seven cats used. Portions
of olfactory (smell sense)
cortex of the brain removed
from fifteen cats by suc
tion. Control animals were
sham operated (subjected
to surgery without brain
damage). Brain-damaged
cats were slow to learn that
a piece of "bait" beef had
been shifted from one
covered dish to another. A
feeding cubicle was de
signed to deliver 20 volts of
electric current between
floor and metal food dish,
and cats were shocked
shortly after immersing
mouth in food. Six of eight
control animals never re
turned to eat after being
shocked twice. Cats with
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damaged brains showed
a"total failure" in learning
to avoid the site of electric
punishment (i.e. the food
dish). Conclusion: this
type of brain damage
produces "highly reliable"
behavioral deficits. (Pre
doctoral fellowshipo PhD
dissertation)
EDUCATION. Eight female
"mongrel" dogs obtained
from the "Yale Department
of Animal Care" used.
Electrodes surgically im
planted in the brain of each
animal for the delivery of
electric shock. Dogs sus
pended in a sling with
straps tied around each leg
so that a paw "could not be
placed on any other plat
form but its own." Animals
were tested for their ability
to lift the"right rear leg" In
response to brain shock.
Experimenter noted wheth
er each dog fully or
partially lifted the test leg
or whether it moved any of
its four limbs"regardless of
the direction of the move
ment." Experimenter said
that animals with their feet
held further apart by the
sling were"required" to
make a "large postural
adjustment" and thus an
ticipate reaction to shock
more than animals whose
feet were bound closer
together. At the end of the
experiment, all of the dogs
were killed so the exper
imenter could find out
where In the brain cortex
the electrodes had been
placed. (PhD dissertation)
It is important to know
that the National Science
Foundation is a member of
the National Society for
Medical Research, which
exists to promote the
procurement and use of
laboratory animals, includ
ing stray animals. This is
how Congress and the
Federal agencies serve
special interest with public
funds without the knowl
edge of the public. People
can't object to what they
don't know. Following are
examples of the kind
of"scientific progress" the
NSF fosters with money
extracted from the Amer
ican people by Congress:
Pigeons attack restrained
live target pigeon during
aggression experiments.
Some of the birds made
"thousands of attacks"
against the helpless re
strained bird.
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