For Immediate Release
July 10, 2007
UCLA Vivisector Has Neighborhood Evacuated Twice in Four Days
Bomb Threat and Suspicious Device Further Highlight Useless and Cruel Experiments on Non-human Primates by Arthur Rosenbaum
Los Angeles- Twice in four days the neighborhood of UCLA Primate Vivisector Arthur Rosenbaum was evacuated, first for a bomb threat and again yesterday when a “suspicious package” was found near his home. A bomb squad was sent late Monday morning to Loring Avenue near Wyton Drive, said Los Angeles Police Department Officer Karen Smith of the Media Relations office . Both actions this week are thus-far unclaimed by animal protection activists; the Animal Liberation Brigade took credit for an attempted firebombing of Rosenbaum’s luxury automobile on June 24 th . Claiming to have witnessed abuse of the highly intelligent primates in Rosenbaum’s laboratory, an anonymous communiqué issued on June 27 th exposed cruel and ineffective atrocities the researcher perpetrates on innocent primates.
In heavily redacted UCLA research protocols recently obtained by the North American Animal Liberation Press Office, Rosenbaum claims to be repeatedly using each primate up to six times for invasive experiments involving the injection of Botox into eye musculature and the gluing of metal coils to the eye schlerae. The survivors are then sold to other researchers for further invasive visual experiments. Rosenbaum’s laboratory is also torturing cats, which are to be used twice each and then killed or re-sold. The total number of animals being used by Rosenbaum is redacted in the reports.
Rosenbaum’s current NIH grant claims he is artificially creating the eye disfigurement known as “strabismus” – or severe cross-eyedness – in monkeys. This study, by its nature, requires the use of unanesthetized, fully conscious monkeys, utilizing a draconian device to restrain the primates while they are forced to perform visual tasks. Quoting from his NIH Grant Number: 5R03EY015247-03, “non-human primates…will perform visual tasks in this environment, while eye position and muscle force output can be recorded. Eye position is accurately obtained through pickup of an implanted scleral search coil in generated differential electromagnetic fields. Muscle force is directly measured with implanted muscle force transducers (MFT). The lateral rectus muscle will be temporarily dennervated through metered injections of Botox, and will be stimulated with implanted electrodes using the MFT frame as a platform.”
Press Officer Jerry Vlasak, MD explains: “The research protocol calls for restraining monkeys in a device that keeps their heads from moving, while metallic coils are glued to their sclerae to allowing tracking of their eye movements. This is an inordinately cruel experiment purporting to study a usually self-limiting disease, for which a number of treatments are currently available and that can readily be studied in volunteer humans. I hope Rosenbaum stops his cruel and fraudulent experiments.”