Just when you thought they couldn’t sink any lower…
… it seems we should never underestimate the depths to which the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) are prepared to lower themselves to.. A few weeks ago we covered the arson attack and graverobbing aimed...
View ArticleThe Animal Rights Network Grows
A network of animal rights blogs has revealed its latest creation. The Negotiation is Over blog, the Thomas Paine’s Corner blog, Stephen Best and the North American Animal Liberation Press Office, have...
View ArticleSymposium Explores Animal Rights Tactics, Responses
On Saturday April 24, 2010, the American Physiological Society sponsored a symposium on Trends in Animal Rights Activism and Extremism. This event, attended by about 100 people, was part of the...
View ArticleWe must reject extremism
Today’s Pop Quiz: What kind of social activism involves: Stalking persons at home and screaming “murderer” through bullhorns Issuing “wanted” posters listing home addresses Thinly veiled (or not so...
View ArticleAnimal Rights Vandals Help Make Our Point
The Foundation for Biomedical Research (FBR) conducted a recent billboard campaign that confronted the public with the ethical dilemma posed by the use of animals in research. The question was simple:...
View ArticleAR Profile: Nicoal Sheen
There seems to have been a shake up of the North American Animal Liberation Press Office (NAALPO), an organization which serves to advertise and promote the activities of animal rights extremists who...
View ArticleI don’t like Rick Bogle
In a new essay Mr. Rick Bogle says I don’t like him. He is right. He never met me. He doesn’t know me. He has never been to my Lab. He doesn’t understand my work. He doesn’t know what I stand for....
View ArticleSpeaking of Morality
It was with the goal of sharing my personal views on the ethics of animal research that I recently published a manuscript on the topic. I also participated in two separate, public debates with animal...
View ArticleConspiracy and greed
Opponents of the use of animals in medical research have difficulty reconciling their claim that the scientific work is invalid and fraudulent with the fact that it has wide support among the...
View ArticleAnimal rights activism and medicine 100 years ago
There is a rather interesting book, Animal Experimentation and Medical Progress by William Williams Keen, published in 1914, which describes some of the incidents in the animal research debate during...
View ArticleTom Regan’s War Declaration: the 25th Year Anniversary
It is not every day that a moral philosopher declares war on the work of his academic colleagues. It happened 25 years ago, on the steps of the Federal Building in Los Angeles, just a couple of blocks...
View ArticleStop Harassing Scientists!
Harassment is the act of systematic and/or continued unwanted and annoying actions of one party or a group, including threats and demands. The purposes may vary, but in the case of animal extremists it...
View ArticleAn open letter to those who support violence in the name of animal rights
The following is an open letter from a victim of animal rights extremism. It was sent to a Los Angeles Times journalist in an effort to draw his attention to the problem. The letter was never...
View ArticleALF Claims Responsibility for CALAS National Office Vandalism
On Tuesday, July 15, an act of vandalism occurred near the Canadian Association for Laboratory Animal Science National Office in Toronto, ON. There were no injuries and a police investigation is...
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