Trial and Error

UCLA is in trouble because of research into nicotine addiction that, it turns out, is being funded by a major tobacco company, thereby, critics claim, compromising the objectivity of the results. But that's only the beginning of their troubles. Part of the experiments involve giving high amounts of nicotine to monkeys and then killing them in order to dissect their brains. On top of that, another aspect of the research is selecting teenagers who are heavy smokers and subjecting them to brain scans. I understand that animal rights activists would like for the two groups to be switched.