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AZUZ: A controversial study has come to light that involved animal testing of car exhaust. It was carried out in 2014 at a research lab in New Mexico. It was paid for by three German carmakers, BMW, Daimler and Volkswagen.
And what the study tried to do was prove that newer diesel1 engines were cleaner that old ones.
But it was how the study was done that's getting so much attention. As first reported in "The New York Times", diesel fumes2 from a Volkswagen were pushed in airtight containers where monkeys breathe in the fumes. This was done for hours at a time.
The three carmakers involved confirmed that researchers they hired did the study. But Volkswagen says it was not finished or published, and the research lab says the study won't be published in the future because it was tainted3.
For years, Volkswagen had been cheating on its diesel emissions4 tests. It was making its car exhaust seemed cleaner in the tests than it actually was from its cars on the road. VW admitted to this in 2015. The company says it believes the methods used in the study on monkeys were wrong and that it would have been better not to do it at all.
Daimler says it's doing an investigation5 and the German government says the tests can't be justified6 in any way.
In Germany, using apes as lab animals is mostly illegal. But it is allowed more extensively in the U.S. Tests that involved breathing car pollutants7 were also reportedly carried out on humans and those were done at a facility in Germany.
1 diesel | |
n.柴油发动机,内燃机 | |
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n.(强烈而刺激的)气味,气体 | |
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adj.腐坏的;污染的;沾污的;感染的v.使变质( taint的过去式和过去分词 );使污染;败坏;被污染,腐坏,败坏 | |
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4 emissions | |
排放物( emission的名词复数 ); 散发物(尤指气体) | |
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n.调查,调查研究 | |
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6 justified | |
a.正当的,有理的 | |
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7 pollutants | |
污染物质(尤指工业废物)( pollutant的名词复数 ) | |
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