That is certainly true. However, the protests mainly highlight the particular aspects of Carroll's addiction research that tend to draw sympathy. If her research stopped then attention would probably be diverted to other research using animal models, particularly research on monkeys, but would this drop the protests below our threshold of notability? IINANS, but the addiction research aspects of her experimentation seem to be quite unique and important on their own, possibly more so than other primate research ongoing in UMN's NeuroSci and CogSci departments.