Related: Spy agencies fund climate research in hunt for weather weapon, scientist fears Like so many military experiments, these trials failed but cloud seeding became a reality in 1967/8 when the US's Operation Popeye increased rainfall by an estimated 30% over parts of Vietnam in an attempt to reduce the movement of soldiers and resources into South Vietnam.
Compassion for animals in laboratories is not "sentimentality"; it goes hand-in-hand with compassion for humans, both of which would be served by leaving cruel and demonstrably unnecessary monkey experiments behind in favour of truly humane and human-relevant science.
To quote just one: "So here is a specific and valuable advance in knowledge that could only have been attained by experimentation on animals that closely resemble us; experiments which are, as far as we can tell, almost painless".
Like other forms of vivisection, experiments on monkeys should be replaced with non-animal methods that provide results directly relevant to humans.
Monkey experiments are not – and cannot be – "humane".
It purports to be objective and rational yet it builds in so many assumptions that it leads inevitably to the conclusion that animal experiments are necessary.
What his experiments do confirm is that dogs have rich emotional lives".
Kulakov's videos range from life hacks with typical click-bait headlines such as "You've Been Eating Shrimp Wrong" and "10 New Life Hacks That Will Change Your Life", to curious science experiments like "How to Cut Wood With Water" and "Self-Freezing Coca-Cola".
It's such a beautiful cycle that it's a wonder there is a bias towards funding high-tech experiments, such as those currently championed by the Reinvent the Toilet Challenge.
Though communal living has its downsides – Linda Grant writes about the pretentious political dogma and macrobiotic obsessions of a hippy commune in her novel We Had It So Good, while what went on in RD Laing's living experiments was altogether more disturbing – I'm convinced that witnessing how resources, material and intellectual, could be pooled at such a young age has shaped me as an adult.
Research with human participants, particularly in experiments that involve modulating brain function, is never taken lightly in the United Kingdom.
