I was appalled by the video footage of experiments at National Institutes of Health (NIH) experimenter Elisabeth Murray's laboratory. Damaging the brains of monkeys then terrifying them with snakes and spiders is the stuff of horror movies and has no place in a government laboratory. The abuse of hundreds of monkeys over 30 years, costing more than $36 million of taxpayer money, has failed to produce a cure or treatment for humans.

The lives lost should fill you with remorse. The wasted time and money should fill you with shame. And these experiments, quite frankly, should fill you with revulsion.

Money, time, and resources should be funneled into cutting-edge, human-relevant non-animal research. End these monkey fright experiments, and close down this laboratory now!

Thank you for your attention to this important matter.