Friday, May 19, 2006

Animal research: extremists are not the problem / Spiked Online, 16 May 2006

http://www.spiked-online.com/articles/0000000CB060.htm
James Panton
"Tony Blair explained that it is 'a sign of just how important I believe it is that as many people as possible stand up against the tiny group of extremists threatening medical research and advances in this country'. The trouble with this is that the real threat to medical research and advances is not 'a tiny group of extremists', but an unwillingness on the part of government ministers to make the moral arguments for vivisection. The extremists merely feed off the authorities' defensiveness."