Hi all, we need help.
Our nonprofit savescienceoregon.org Is fighting the closure of the ONPRC (Oregon National Primate Research Center) which produces important publicly available biomedical datasets.
These attacks are politically motivated and poorly thought out. Some infamous politicians linked with the NIH are pushing ideas like "We don't need animal testing anymore now that we have AI", which is problematic for a lot of reasons.
We are running an email campaign trying to get more people with deeper than surface level understanding to email the representatives who can do something about this. If you would like to help please send one yourself or just spread the word.
Right now we are running an Oregon trail themed campaign about ONPRC at https://savescienceoregon.org/stay-alive. However our primary goal is informing the general public as nuanced debate on animal testing is difficult due to the subject matter.
