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she joins us from them tonight. thanks for coming on. did you make this up? . it sounds like it, doesn t it? it s an experiment that an eighth grade science student could figure out is totally meaningless, but no, unfortunately, we did not. it s right on the website of what nih funds. they take male monkeys, they put them in metal boxes, that s where they are forced to live. they subject them to hormones, so-called hormone treatment, and from that they are supposed to learn something about h.i.v. transmission. now, never mind that monkeys don t actually contract h.i.v. they don t actually develop aids. this is a study that could be done with human volunteers and we might actually find something out that would help human beings. tucker: so there is a lot of money, i mean, i think most, i know peta does not support this but people might say, if you can prove that it would save human lives and get a mass advance in scientific knowledge maybe but some of these animal experiments