NEWS
Panel to talk monkey business is a waste
By Lydia Statz | Sep. 19, 2010Last Thursday, the Dane County Board of Supervisors struck down a motion to create a citizen's advisory panel on primate testing at UW-Madison, and rightly so. The duties of the panel were to include analyzing and investigating the ethics behind primate testing in hopes of educating the public. And while it is certainly a topic of great public interest that is worthy of deep debate, the board has no power over the university. Discussing primate testing in a forum that has no authority to affect change is simply a waste of taxpayer dollars and the county legislature's time.
