Unnecessary Complexity is a film produced by Ingrid Newkirk and Alex Pacheco from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), which shows footage in the University's Head Injury Clinic of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
The tape was recorded in 1983-1984 by the researchers themselves because they caused brain damage to baboons with hydraulic devices. The experiments were conducted as part of a research project being a head injury caused by vehicle and sport accidents. The footage shows the researchers laughing at baboons as brain damage caused.
Sixty hours of audio and video cassettes were removed from the laboratory during an attack in May 1984 by the Animal Liberation Front, which handed them to PETA. It was later edited into 26 minutes with voice commentary by Newkirk, before being distributed to the media and Congress. Charles McCarthy, director of the Office of Risk Protection Research (OPRR) wrote that the film has exaggerated deficiencies in the clinic, but that the OPRR has found serious violations of the Guidelines for the Maintenance and Use of Laboratory Animals. As a result of publicity, the laboratory was closed, the vet chief was dismissed, and the university was placed on probation.
The movie's title comes from a statement made for The Globe and Mail by the head of clinic, neurosurgeon Thomas Gennarelli before the raid. He refuses to describe his research into newspapers because, he says, it has "the potential to arouse all sorts of unnecessary commotion..."
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Deborah Blum writes that "it's hard to say in words how ugly this short film is." The film shows at least one baboon being anesthetized but not anesthetized with his wrists and ankle tied, tied to the operating table, his shaved head secured with cement gear inside the helmet. A hydraulic device known as Penn 2 strikes the baboon's head from behind, pushing it forward at an angle of 60 degrees with what power the researchers say up to 1000 , apparently intended to simulate whiplash.
After a sustained injury, the baboon head is detached from the helmet using a hammer and screwdriver. One sequence shows the part of the torn ear baboon along with the helmet. After pulling the baboon head from the helmet, the researchers sounded laughing, saying: "It's a boy," then, "Looks like I left a small ear behind."
The footage shows the researchers laughing at the wounded baboons, performing electrocautery on conscious baboons, smoking and piping during surgery, and playing loud music when the animals are injured. A researcher was seen holding a badly wounded baboon in front of the camera, while the other spoke to the animal: "Do not be embarrassed now, sir, not to be afraid," followed by laughter, and "He said, 'you' will save me from this , is not it? ', "followed by more laughter.
While a baboon was injured on the operating table by a hydraulic device, the camera panned into the brain, a salivating monkey tied to a high chair in the corner of the room, with the words "Cheerleading in the corner, we had B-10. As you can see, the B-10 is still alive.B-10 hopes for a good result, "followed by laughter. In another sequence, an audible researcher said: "You better hope... the anti-dissecting people can not master this movie."
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Investigation of OPRR
Investigations were conducted by 18 veterinarians from the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine, who were assigned by the Office of Protection from Risk Research (OPRR). Charles R. McCarthy, director of OPRR at the time, wrote that "[d] especially the fact that Unnecessary Complexity overestimated deficiencies in the Head Injury Clinic, OPRR found many serious violations of the Guidelines for the Treatment and Use of Laboratory Animals... Moreover, the OPRR found flaws in animal care procedures in many other laboratories operated under the auspices of the university. "
Violations include that the depth of anesthesia coma is questionable; that most animals are invisible to veterinarians either before or after surgery, surgical survival techniques are not performed in the required aseptic manner; that the operating room was not properly cleaned; and that smoking is allowed in the operating room despite an oxygen tank.
When PETA made the 26 minute movie available, OPRR initially refused to investigate because the film had been edited from 60 hours of video recording. For one year, PETA refused to release the original record. When they finally submitted unedited material, the OPRR found that the recording of brain damage inflicted only one baboon of 150 who had received Penn 2 injuries. The film suggests that a scene of brain damage involves several animals.
OPRR identified 25 errors in Newkirk's top-voice commentary. One example is when unintentional water spills in conscious babies during a surgical procedure were identified, incorrectly, by one of the Head Injury Clinic researchers, and later by Newkirk, as "possibly acid."
Sit-in and clinical closure
Animal rights activist held a three-day action at the National Institutes of Health. Margaret Heckler, secretary of Health and Human Services, supports clinical closure. The government concluded that the violations seen on the tape were sufficient to justify the closure of the clinic. The OPRR also finds shortcomings in other laboratories operated by the university. University veterinarian heads are dismissed, new training programs are started, and universities are placed on probation, with quarterly progress reports for OPRR required.
See also
- Pit of despair
- Testure, a music video by the industrial rock band Skinny Puppy
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