The Monkey Wars

The Scientistt Podcast by Scientistt

Aug 17, 202100:39:20Science & Medicine

Is it ethical to experiment on primates? Pulitzer-prize winner Deborah Blum comes onto the pod to talk about her groundbreaking book - The Monkey Wars. Written in 1994 but reading like it was written today, the fraught e...

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