Dear Editor: Thank you for your coverage of the Dane County Board meetings on forming an advisory panel to examine the ethics and efficacy of primate research. I thought it was unfair of some University of Wisconsin speakers to label everyone supporting the advisory panel as ?animal rights? people simply because one has valid concerns about primate research such as stress-inducing handling procedures and abnormal behavior.
When I worked as a primate researcher at the Harlow Lab in 1999-2004, I was well-liked and a very hard worker. I was taught that ?animal rights? people were ignorant and violent. I was instructed to ignore them.