The interesting thing for me was the effects, not the ethics of the research itself. It is interesting that the torturous aspects of this were primarily mental

The interesting thing for me was the effects, not the ethics of the research itself. It is interesting that the torturous aspects of this were primarily mental not physical and still disgust people. Contrast with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unnecessary_Fuss http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unnecessary_Fuss (linked from that article) and you'll get what I consider a true idea of torture. That is not to say there aren't ethical concerns etc., but most of the horrible actions were committed by the monkeys themselves and were presumably unexpected, in contrast with something like in Unnecessary Fuss where there was intentional infliction of harm.