Protest planned for Helen Wills 10th Anniversary event!

The title of Professor Yang Dan's speech at this event is "Hebbian plasticity in the visual cortex: Synaptic learning and network reverberation." I was able to come across this with an internet search:
YANG DAN uses 70 CATS, 950 rats, 48 ferrets, 200 mice and 200 hamsters per year. Supposedly performed under sufficient anesthesia, Yang Dan's cats and other animals are paralyzed with a drug, a hole is drilled in their skulls and electrodes inserted directly into their brains. They are placed in "stereotaxic device with ear bars, eye bars and a mouth bar to stabilize the head position." Their eyes are "glued" to "posts." They are subjected to visual stimuli, and the electrical firings of roughly a dozen single brain cells or less are recorded continuously for up to "72 hours" non-stop until the "cortex stops giving normal visual responses." Rats are placed in a "light-tight box, and kept under no-light conditions for 48 hours to 1 week prior to recording," or one eye would be sewed shut. Rats will also undergo fluid deprivation to "motivate" them to perform tasks to test Dr. Dan's "visual discrimination paradigm." The purpose, she claims, is to "understand how visual neurons code and process information" and how "connectivity between them are modulated by visual inputs."

don't just accept what you read here without question... think for yourself and ask if these very important accusations can be proven.