Sunday, December 02, 2018
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6418/984
this article about hepatitis b and woodchucks caught my interest.
i have been an experimental animal used and abused in hepatitis c research. hepatitis c is now curable; the current concern is the high cost and limited availability of the meds. competitition will bring down the cost, according to the principles of austrian economics. reseach i was involved in at abbot/abbvie in waukegan helped get another med on the market.
i was banned from that facility for giving honest feeback about the extreme pain i experienced in a study that involved putting a tube own my nose into the small intestine. i think that was unethical. i was banned from Covance for asking them to follow their own rules, as required by informed consent. losing those two big clients put me in a situation of financial hardship.
i've been able to get a bit of coverage, not yet enough. chicago magazine reported on my issues,
while vice news on hbo showed a prison once use for human experiements, before introucing me an other lab rats, in a story called lab rat nation.
my family has been friends with a family of woodchucks, yellow-bellied mountain marmots, for 50 years, when my late uncle bob started going to meeker park lodge near estes park colorado. with enough time and enough peanuts, we've learned to coexist. so the groundhog who lives in my shed is an honored guest, not an unwanted pest. recent developments in prairie dog research show that prairie dogs have a highly developed language, for calls such as 'man in orange coat has a gun, 3 o'clock'. my hypothesis is that woodchucks may also use language. as far as i know this has not been studied. machine learning is well suited to such study. computers can hear tones and pitches humans can't, and can operate both faster and slower than human grad students. my modest proposal is that the labs which raise grounhogs for hep b research could outfit them with a collar to listen and analyze groundhog vocal behaviors, and that the drug companies which use the groundhogs can and should fund such research.
at the moment i am posting this to an obscure blog. getting it to the right people would take more work. maybe i should send this to maggie at boingboing, or to national geographic, which published my uncle bob's astronomy pictures, taken up in the mountains where we got to know the marmots.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/279591267_Golden-marmot_alarm_calls_I_The_production_of_situationally_specific_vocalizations
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/225360363_Do_yellow-bellied_marmots_respond_to_predator_vocalizations
https://www.researchgate.net/project/Animal-sociality-and-social-networks-conceptual
https://blumsteinlab.eeb.ucla.edu/who-we-are/
this article about hepatitis b and woodchucks caught my interest.
i have been an experimental animal used and abused in hepatitis c research. hepatitis c is now curable; the current concern is the high cost and limited availability of the meds. competitition will bring down the cost, according to the principles of austrian economics. reseach i was involved in at abbot/abbvie in waukegan helped get another med on the market.
i was banned from that facility for giving honest feeback about the extreme pain i experienced in a study that involved putting a tube own my nose into the small intestine. i think that was unethical. i was banned from Covance for asking them to follow their own rules, as required by informed consent. losing those two big clients put me in a situation of financial hardship.
i've been able to get a bit of coverage, not yet enough. chicago magazine reported on my issues,
while vice news on hbo showed a prison once use for human experiements, before introucing me an other lab rats, in a story called lab rat nation.
my family has been friends with a family of woodchucks, yellow-bellied mountain marmots, for 50 years, when my late uncle bob started going to meeker park lodge near estes park colorado. with enough time and enough peanuts, we've learned to coexist. so the groundhog who lives in my shed is an honored guest, not an unwanted pest. recent developments in prairie dog research show that prairie dogs have a highly developed language, for calls such as 'man in orange coat has a gun, 3 o'clock'. my hypothesis is that woodchucks may also use language. as far as i know this has not been studied. machine learning is well suited to such study. computers can hear tones and pitches humans can't, and can operate both faster and slower than human grad students. my modest proposal is that the labs which raise grounhogs for hep b research could outfit them with a collar to listen and analyze groundhog vocal behaviors, and that the drug companies which use the groundhogs can and should fund such research.
at the moment i am posting this to an obscure blog. getting it to the right people would take more work. maybe i should send this to maggie at boingboing, or to national geographic, which published my uncle bob's astronomy pictures, taken up in the mountains where we got to know the marmots.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/279591267_Golden-marmot_alarm_calls_I_The_production_of_situationally_specific_vocalizations
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/225360363_Do_yellow-bellied_marmots_respond_to_predator_vocalizations
https://www.researchgate.net/project/Animal-sociality-and-social-networks-conceptual
https://blumsteinlab.eeb.ucla.edu/who-we-are/
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