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MONTH: January/February 2007
Primate Freedom Project wins museum building verdict
MADISON, Wisc.--Dane
County Judge Sarah O'Bean ruled on November 28, 2006 that the Primate
Freedom Project holds a legal contract to buy a building located between
the National Primate Research Center and the Harry Harlow Primate Psychology
Laboratory. Both labs are operated by the University of Wisconsin.
O'Bean ordered owner Roger Charly to complete
the sale to retired California physician Richard McLellan, for the specified
price of $675,000. Charly is expected to appeal.
Primate Freedom Project founder Rick Bogle
moved to Madison in 2004 to renovate the building into a planned National
Primate Research Center Exhibition Hall, expected to become a rallying
point for opposition to primate experiments.
After the project was announced, but before
money actually changed hands, the University of Wisconsin reportedly offered
Charly more than $1 million for the building.
The Harlow building, on one side of the
site, is where Harlow from 1930 to 1970 drove generations of baby macaques
mad, plunging them into stainless steel "pits of despair," subjecting
them to deliberately cruel robotic "mothers," and allowing mothers
driven insane by his experiments to abuse and kill them. When Harlow semi-retired
to a part-time post at the University of Arizona, other faculty dismantled
his equipment, but the building continued to house primate studies.
Harlow died in 1981, at age 76, a reputed drunk whose chief contribution to mainstream laboratory primatology was inventing the "rape rack," a device for artificially inseminating primates.