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The Signal That Vanished: How One Blank Field Hid Deadly Drug Warnings

The Signal That Vanished: How One Blank Field Hid Deadly Drug Warnings

A hidden room in Silver Spring held seventeen wild‑caught macaques in 46 cm square cages with no bedding or food bowls; one monkey chewed his deafferented arm to exposed bone. How did a police raid that began as an animal‑welfare case turn into a decade‑long legal and scientific battle that reached the Supreme Court and changed stroke therapy?

In this episode, we tell what unfolded after a 22‑year‑old volunteer photographed conditions, how police removed the monkeys on September 11, 1981, and why the NIH later found the…

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