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Meet The Researchers
Poisoning infant monkeys with alcohol and methyl-mercury... separating them from their mothers... infecting them with AIDS while still in their mothers wombs... these are just a handful of experiments conducted by researchers at the University of Washington.
 Thomas Burbacher, PhD
Director, Infant Primate Research Laboratory
Associate Professor of Environmental Health
Research Affiliate, Center on Human Development and Disability
Email: tmb@u.washington.edu
Office Phone: 206-685-7674
Office Address: 4225 Roosevelt Way N.E. #100, Seattle, WA 98195-7234
As the director of the Infant Primate Research Laboratory at the U.W., Dr. Burbacher oversees research that deprives infant monkeys of contact with their mothers. Burbacher also subjects baby primates to alcohol and methyl-mercury poisoning, and exposes them to the wasting agony of simian AIDS.
Burbacher is also a member of the university's Animal Care and Use Committee, where he consistently votes to affirm protocols on animals that include, for instance, a recently approved study for bone cement, to be conducted on pigs and under which all of the pigs will die. Burbacher is also currently conducting his own long term studies of the effects of methylmercury, lead, and methanol on monkeys.
Please let Burbacher and all of the UW administrators how you feel about this use of taxpayer dollars.
 Christine Gleason, MD
Head, Division of Neonatology
Professor of Pediatrics
Research Affiliate, Center on Human Development and Disability
Email: cgleason@u.washington.edu
Office Phone: 206-543-3200
Office Address: University of Washington, Box 356320, Seattle, WA 98195-6320
Dr. Gleason is currently studying lambs, whom she exposes to alcohol as fetuses. While we agree with her that Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is a serious health issue, there can be no ethical or even scientific justification for exposes living, feeling beings to alcohol poisoning.
Let Dr. Gleason know how you feel about this and other research using both accepted and illicit drugs on the developing brains of innocent animals.
 Sidney M. Gospe, Jr., MD, PhD
Division Head and Professor, Pediatric Neurology
Research Affiliate, Center on Human Development and Disability
Email: sgospe@u.washington.edu
Office Phone: 206-987-2078
Office Address: University of Washington, Box 359300, CH-49, Seattle, WA 98195-9300
Dr. Gospe has done research on rats and primates that exposes them to poisonous substances including toluene, a pollutant that in high doses causes kidney failure and cerebral atrophy. Gospe is currently exposing animals to second-hand tobacco smoke, both pre- and post-natally, essentially dooming baby rats and mice to various lung diseases.
 Donald Born, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pathology/Neuropathology
Research Affiliate, Center on Human Development and Disability
Coordinator, Neuropathology, Neuroscience Core
Email: dborn@u.washington.edu
Office Phone: 206-543-8769 or 206-731-6315
Office Address: University of Washington, Box 357470, Seattle, WA 98195-6480
Dr. Born conducts electrophysiological and anatomical studies of brain tissue from animals. In order to do these studies, living, breathing, and feeling creatures must suffer and die. Born takes these animals, mostly monkeys and rats, and incudes epilepsy and convulsions. Please let Dr. Born know how you feel about this cruel and unnecessary waste of taxpayer money.
 Gene Sackett, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Psychology
Research Affiliate, Center on Human Development and Disability
Email: jsackett@bart.rprc.washington.edu
Office Phone: 206-543-2500
Office Address: University of Washington, Box 357330, Seattle, WA 98195-7330
Maternal deprivation is Sackett's specialty. For more information on this cruel and wasteful use of animals and taxpayer money, read the recent article by Dr. Wayne Johnson, a psyco-therapist formerly on staff at the University of Washington. Go here for the article.
Ask the experimenters why they experiment on animals, and the answer is: "Because the animals are like us."
Ask the experimenters why it is morally okay to experiment on animals, and the answer is: "Because the animals are not like us."
Animal experimentation rests on a logical contradiction. -- Professor Charles R. Magel
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