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In December 2019, White Coat Waste Project (WCW) sued the National Institutes of Health (NIH) after it refused to release videos and other materials related to wasteful and bizarre psychological experiments on primates that have cost taxpayers nearly $100 million just since 2007.

Now, we know what they were trying to hide.

Never-before-seen videos released to WCW depict distraught monkeys chained by the neck in tiny cages being tormented with rubber spiders and mechanical snakes, objects the primates instinctively fear, just to observe their reactions.

NIH “white coats” sucked out parts of these monkeys’ brains or destroyed them with toxic acid to intentionally worsen the primates’ fear.

In the clips, monkeys jump in fear and cower in the back of their cages. In one of the videos, an experimenter can be heard joking off-camera, “where the hell is the dancing monkey?”

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These videotaped experiments at the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH) in Bethesda, Maryland have cost taxpayers over $16 million since 2007, and $1.7 million in 2019 alone.

According to the documents, 149 monkeys are slated to be used in this single project. The NIH writes that 60 of these animals will be purchased new and the rest obtained via the “NIH NHP [nonhuman primate] Recycling Program,” meaning instead of being retired from testing, they were transferred from other experiments.

The documents state that some of the transferred monkeys have been given brain damage, have restraint posts screwed into their skulls and electrodes implanted into their brains.

Footage of these monkeys has not yet been released to WCW.

WCW is also still fighting NIH for the release of videos depicting experiments in which monkeys are observed to they can tell the difference between photos of monkeys’ faces and pieces of fruit and watching “commercially produced nature documentaries.” 

Some of these tests have been continuously funded by taxpayers for more than 40 years.

In December, Congress and the President enacted first-ever legislation directing the NIH to report by the end of 2020 on its efforts to reduce and replace wasteful primate testing. These experiments are Exhibit A for why reforms are so badly needed.

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