Through rigorous investigations, NEAVS has created a body of evidence on why chimpanzee and other animal research must end. National media, advocacy groups and animal organizations to name a few, frequently quote from our data that is based on expert scientific and behavioral research. Our papers focus on major human killer-diseases and the psychological harm inflicted on chimpanzees in labs. These peer-reviewed studies dispute rhetoric with clear facts—for example, the decline of hepatitis C research involving chimpanzees by almost 70% over the last 20 years to a historic low, whereas human-based hepatitis C research has increased 80 times over. While scientists who profit from animal use continue to try to claim that animal use is necessary and productive, our research challenges these claims as unfounded. Animal research and testing has failed in areas such as toxicity safety and vaccine development. It is unreliable and not predictive when applied to humans. Through this work , NEAVS  fights the rhetoric of those who profit from animal use with the reality of what science itself shows.

Publications

• Implementing the CHIMP Act: The Case for Federally Promulgated Criteria to Immediately Retire Chimpanzees from Laboratories to Sanctuary
  Capaldo, T., Bailey, J., and Groff, K. (2012). Journal of Animal Welfare Law, Autumn 2012/Winter 2013.
• The Bioethics of Great Ape Well-Being (Spanish translation) Psychiatric Injury and Duty of Care
  Capaldo, T., Bradshaw, G.A. (2011) Animals & Society Institute Policy Paper
• A Review of Autopsy Reports on Chimpanzees in or from U.S. Laboratories
  Capaldo, T. & Peppercorn, M. (2012). Alternatives to Laboratory Animals, 40(5).
• Lessons from Chimpanzee-Based Research on Human Disease: The Implications of Genetic Differences
  Bailey, J. (2011). Alternatives to Laboratory Animals, 39(6):527–540.
• The Bioethics of Great Ape Well-Being: Psychiatric Injury and Duty of Care
  Capaldo, T., Bradshaw, G.A. (2011) Animals & Society Institute Policy Paper
• An Economic Analysis:Chimpanzee Housing and Maintenance in U.S. Laboratories and Sanctuaries
  Capaldo, T., Owens, M., & Lary, M. (2010). Project R&R.
• An Assessment of the Use of Chimpanzees in Hepatitis C Research Past, Present and Future (Part 1): Validity of the Chimpanzee Model
  Bailey, J. (2010). Alternatives to Laboratory Animals, 38(5):387-418.
• An Assessment of the Use of Chimpanzees in Hepatitis C Research Past, Present and Future (Part 2): Alternative Replacement Methods
  Bailey, J. (2010). Alternatives to Laboratory Animals, 38(6): 471–494.
• Developmental Context Effects:Bicultural Post-Trauma Self Repair in Chimpanzees
  Bradshaw, G.A., Capaldo, T., Lindner, L., & Grow, G. (2009). Developmental Psychology, 45(5): 1376-1388.
• An Examination of Chimpanzee Use in Human Cancer Research
  Bailey, J. (2009). Alternatives to Laboratory Animals, 37(4): 399-416.
• An Assessment of the Role of Chimpanzees in AIDS Vaccine Research
  Bailey, J. (2008). Alternatives to Laboratory Animals, 36(4): 381-428.
• Building an Inner Sanctuary: Complex PTSD in Chimpanzees
  Bradshaw, G.A., Capaldo, T., Lindner, L., & Grow, G. (2008). Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 9(1): 9-34.
• Nonhuman Primates Mean Less, Not More, Human Medical Progress
  Bailey, J., Capaldo, T., Conlee, K., & Thew, M. (2008). Nature Medicine, 14 (10):1011-1012.
• How Well Do Animal Teratology Studies Predict Human Hazard?
  Bailey, J.(2008).AltTox.org.
• NHP Genetic Similarities Offer No Results
  Bailey, J. (2008). Response to Morgan et al. “The Use of Nonhuman Primate Models in HIV Vaccine Development”, PLoS Medicine, 5(8):173.
• Chimpanzee Research:An Examination of Its Contribution to Biomedical Knowledge and Efficacy in Combating Human Diseases, and Supplement
  Bailey, J., Balcombe, J. & Capaldo, T. (2007). Project R&R.
• The Psychological Effects of Using Animals
  Capaldo, T. (2004).Alternatives to Laboratory Animals, 32(Supp.1): 525-531.
• The Experimental Use of Chickens and Other Birds in Biomedical and Agricultural Research
  Davis, K. (2003). ©

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