Quotes by Fred Coulston

"[We have tested] a wide variety of detergents and phosphates [in monkeys' eyes]."
- Annals New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. 162, pp. 681-706, 1969

"Isn't that [a chimpanzee retirement colony] nice? Let them run around the living room with your children. They'd kill your kids. They're vicious, aggressive animals."
- Boston Globe, November 7, 1994

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"Their concept that the great ape belongs to be considered along with man in my opinion is sheer nonsense. It's an animal."
- ABC 20/20, May 5, 1995

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"We are now the sole source of chimpanzees for research."
- Alamogordo Daily News, October 2, 1994

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"[Chimpanzees are] the best possible model to test the fate and effects of foreign chemicals in man."
- Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, Vol. 5, pp. 182-189, 1985

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"...Coulston International Corporation and its subsidiary corporations take an unusual view of the chimpanzee in biomedical research. We view the chimpanzee as an essential animal model for biomedical research, not only as an animal model for traditional infectious disease research, but as a model for toxicology/pharmacology...."
- Coulston International Corporation, January 25, 1993 letter to the U.S. Air Force

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"CHIMPANZEES and other non-human primates available for biomedical research," including "the full development of new drugs, insecticides, cosmetics, medical devices, etc."
- Advertisement from Fred Coulston's White Sands Research Center, Reprinted August 1988 in IPPL Newsletter

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"I wouldn't even rule out in the far future having a colony of chimps providing blood for human transfusion,"
- New York Times, Feb. 4, 1997, page 1

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"How many chimps do you want? You can raise them like you do cattle. In 10 years you could have half a million."
-New York Times, Feb. 4, 1997, page 1

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"Lead? Lead levels in the blood have no effect on intelligence."
- New York Times, Feb. 4, 1997, page 1

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"DDT is one of the greatest inventions of mankind, and it doesn't thin bird eggs."
- New York Times, Feb. 4, 1997, page 1

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"There's no evidence tobacco reduces one's lifespan. Many people smoke and live to be 100."
- The Denver Post, September 7, 1997

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"What we're going to do is research the way it should be done, like the way we did it in the 1970s."
- Las Cruces Sun News, October 6, 1994

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"I don't think there's an excess -- I would like to have 5,000 [to use, eventually, as organ donors and blood banks for humans]."
- Wall Street Journal, Dec. 30, 1997, page 1

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The 83-year-old Mr. Coulston isn't afraid of courting controversy, and not just about chimps. He calls AIDS "a silly disease" whose sufferers should have been forced to display "a big sign on the door saying 'Quarantine.'" Chain-smoking through a recent interview, he proclaims that "nicotine is not addictive" and "you won't get cancer if you don't inhale." He says he had to turn to chimps when his work with human subjects -- prisoners -- was halted in the 1960s."
- The Wall Street Journal, December 30, 1997