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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “The primate centers also have a profit motive.”

Featuring: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Independent | United States Secretary of Health and Human Services | National

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Published | Video Starts at 08:38

One of the things that people need to recognize is that there's a dynamic here, like in many other things, that is self sustaining and self reinforcing. And The primate centers also have a profit motive. And, and they get locked into the system where the researchers know that they can make a certain amount of money through this kind of research. (08:38–08:43)

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Asserts that primate research centers are driven by profit motives.

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