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Nonprofit Science Advocacy Group Calls for Retraction of Intimate Partner Violence Study for Which More Than 100 Young Female Animals Were Strangled and Killed

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a national nonprofit medical ethics and health advocacy group of 17,000 physicians, has requested the retraction of a research study published in the journal Brain, Behavior, and Immunity for which dozens of adolescent rats were subjected to traumatic brain injuries, inflicted by a metal plate propelled into each animal’s head, then strangled for 90 seconds, and all ultimately killed.

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