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Lots of competing interests on this issue. An organization to which I belong, the Society for Neuroscience, I believe opposed it originally. I don't know if they opposed it on the grounds that they still want chimps or if they think that if they take the chimps away, they'll come for the macaques next, then the rhesus, then the rats and mice eventually. Either way, I think its a black mark for them. Its not really morally defensible to do chimp research, IMO, even if it leads to some disease cures eventually.