Miss_Athanatos
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The dramatization they did for the documentary is misleading. I belong to an organization called AALAS (American Association for Laboratory Animal Science), and that sort of setup shown is not what you would see in an animal study. Typical animal handling used in labs was not observed. NHPs usually have terrible viruses and a propensity to bite people, making serious protective gear necessary for moving and handling the NHPs.I've not watched the episode yet but find the monkey reference a little disturbing just because of how it appears to have been set up. However, after reading up a little on it, it appears that it was well sanctioned and approved by the car manufacturers and the scientific bodies that should have all stood up and walked away from the proposal of the test. Here's the CNN article link: http://money.cnn.com/2018/01/29/investing/volkswagen-daimler-bmw-monkey-testing-diesel/index.html
There's nothing essentially wrong with testing the Clean Diesel emissions against the ordinary diesel emissions by making the NHPs breathe the NOx as it comes out of the refining vessel. What was wrong with the study was that Clean Diesel technology did not work on the road, so it was moot as to whether the effects were more or less harmful than ordinary diesel emissions.
Also, I would like to point out that none of the NHPs were reported to have died during the experiment or been euthanized after the experiment...indicating that no great measurable ill effect was suffered by the NHPs due to the study.