| Sumario: | Young adults who owe their health and even their lives to research conducted on animals often side with animal rights activists says Adrian R. Morrison, a research director at the Center for Neuroscience, Behavior, and Society at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Morrison, whose own lab has been raided by the Animal Liberation Front, says that the real agenda of such groups as People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is “not designed to improve animal welfare but to eliminate animal use in research.” And a gullible, scientifically illiterate public, he contends has been taken in by activists' claims that animals can be replaced in scientific research. “Medical science has a responsibility to immunize people against such nonsense just as surely as it has a responsibility to immunize people against disease,” Morrison says. Researchers must do their best to foster the well-being of animals in their care, Morrison says. “However, scientists have a greater responsibility to their fellow humans, who look to medical science for relief of suffering.” Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
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