Last week, a commotion erupted on a draft anthrax canceled at Oklahoma State University (OSU), Stillwater . The National Institutes of Health has agreed to fund the study, which involved the creation of an animal model of anthrax infection in baboons, and the use and care of the University Committee of the animals gave fire green. But OSU President Burns Hargis decided that the project would not be allowed on campus, for reasons that are not immediately clear.
Hargis made the decision based on several factors, vice president of the USO for the transfer of research and technology, Stephen McKeever, said Science Insider Friday. "The question he was most worried about was that he did not really attract controversy among violent elements of various groups of animal rights. He did not want to OSU in this spot and so unnecessarily distract or interfere with the current research. " While McKeever said no attacks or threats against specific OSU factored into the decision, attacks by extremist animal rights have been on the rise in the US in recent years.
OSU Researchers and elsewhere were quick to speculate that the decision was influenced by Hargis Madeline Pickens, a donor and rights activist rich animals. Her husband, T. Boone Pickens, donated $ 458 million to the university in recent years. Last week, the website Madeleine Pickens published an article DVM Newsmagazine the decision of anthrax, annexing the original title with the exclamation "Kudos for a great decision!" and highlighting comments from a professor in OSU Center for Veterinary Health Sciences suggesting that Pickens had played a role in the decision.
McKeever denies that Pickenses had a role in the decision to block the coal project. "We never had discussions with them on this issue," he said. "How can I say that it had no other than to say that it did not happen? "
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