Should we limit medical testing on chimps?

Absolutely. They should use convicted felons/child molesters.

Why are chimps more valuable then mice?

Test the dude who burned that lady in the Elevator....

One more step in the "dumb down" where political expediency, once again, trumps scientific merit. It is depressing to see such far reaching critical research decisions made on such quasi-scientific evidence about apes and other non-human species, to wit: "...signs of love, complex social organization, self-awareness and distress," - one of the weakest areas of behavior research (regarding rigorous theory, methods, and conclusions), promulgated by animal rights activists inside and outside the scientific community, and communicated to us with great authority by a newspaper reporter. The justification for animal research, including apes, should never have become solely associated with its medical benefits to humans - a selfish anthropocentic excess in itself, but recognized for the important role it has had in behavior and brain-behavior research in the 20th century and into the present. As we are only on the threshold of understanding more complicated brain-behavior relationships, sweeping decisions such as this will only retard that advance. That is, basic behavior and physiological research on apes and other non-human species here is treated almost as an afterthought by the NAS and HIH when, in fact, their decision will make it near impossible to continue it, be used by misguided activists to further restrict research in other areas, and set back attempts to understand how nature and nurture work in all living organisms.

By all means, we should limit the medical testing on chimps. It would be cheaper and more beneficial to start using liberals and PETA members.

If you think monkeys are more important than human life and are willing to risk more human deaths on medical advances when other tests fail to uncover dangerous side effects or reactions to medicine.
When your child comes down with some rare illness and the doctor tells you not to worry the medicine they are going to use worked OK on rats and your fine with that, I guess it’s no big deal to some, but I am not one that would be OK with that. I am simply not willing to risk human life to save a monkey.
What will they do when the radicals want to protect the rats, use people?
All they are going to do is force people who need to do serious testing off shore.
More jobs lost in the US.

I had a friend who used to work in an animal testing clinic. She quit because, in her words, they kept doing the same tests over and over just for the money - they already had the results.

having worked at NIH and seeing how they are housed, I understand why they are not happy. imagine you are kept in an area about the size of a bathroom and then they give you shots, some that make you feel sick and some that put you out so you can be cut on. I say it would be better to experiment on the human "lifers" in jail. the chimps didn't do any thing to get locked up, the lifers did.

Test O.J.

We should be using human subjects, in particular the NCAA and OWS supporters. It's pretty clear neither one can think, so they aren't sentient beings.

Between computer models, in vitro studies and the eternal testing and retesting of the same darned compounds that we already know are harmful, no doubt most animal studies are duplicative. We don't need this much, and to think that animals do not experience agony is very wrong. I worked for an animal lab once, and I remember the investigaotrs telling me of the agonies of these animals--terrible. It is only ignorance that causes the folks below to cheer it on. I submit that any animal species who has been used for an animal study should have access to the resulting medicine in perpetuity.

Animals like chimps have feelings, to test on them is inhumane. I remember the video of test chimps being released in open cages to the outside after years being caged in Europe.
The trepidation and then joy they expressed made me cry.

Yes, test on inmates instead.

I have it on good authority (a chimp I've known for years) that chimps are definitely in favor of the bans on ANY testing that involves them. It's been their contention, for some time now, that any similarities noted between themselves and humans are both superficial and highly insulting!

Use congress instead.

Save the Chimps....Test Sandusky over and over ......

There are plenty of convicts to test with. Why should monkeys suffer?

As stated in the article why we should not be testing on chimps:
"It's simple: The intelligent apes are man's closest relative."

UhOh, here we go with the black jokes again...

That is good for the chimps and bad for the sadists that enjoy torturing a helpless captive