From: young@serum.kodak.com
Subject: AR "non-violence"
Originator: young@sasquatch
Reply-To: young@serum.kodak.com
Organization: Clinical Products Division, Eastman Kodak Company
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 11:42:49 GMT

The following is from the "Action and Reaction" section of the September 1992 
issue of DISCOVER magazine:

            "Craig Westfall's comments [June] on 'Monkeying With the Brain,'
        by Tony Dajer [January], illustrate the erroneous claims so often made
        by animal rights activists.
            Westfall asserts that threats to researchers and their families
        are 'nonexistent' and that the 'threats they claim to get from animal
        activists are self-made and publicized for propaganda.'  In January
        1990 the Animal Liberation Front ransacked my office.  Soon afterward
        I read in the VILLAGE VOICE (March 6, 1990) that 'PETA (People for
        the Ethical Treatment of Animals) intends to use Morrison to persuade
        other vivisectors who were heartened by his strong stand on animal
        research that it doesn't pay off...Now the spotlight is on him, and
        what happens next will deter others who might want to follow in his
        footsteps.'  This statement was attributed to Ingrid Newkirk, national
        director of PETA.
            Later that month the telephoned death threats by unidentified
        persons began, and hate mail started arriving at my home as well as
        my office.  PETA even attempted, unsucessfully, to turn my neighbors
        against me with a letter-writing campaign.
            All  this occurred because I had been defending biomedical
        researchers for several years.  For example, in November 1981 I
        appeared in court and then in later hearings and pointed out key errors
        in the animal rights activists' claims against Dr. Taub.  They
        grossly misrepresented the nature and imortance of the sensory
        deafferentation experiments that he performed.  The highly unsanitary
        conditions reported by Alex Pacheco, cofounder of PETA, and other
        activists, who visited the laboratory at night while Taub was on
        vacation and his two caretakers were often inexplicably absent, did
        not exist at other times.  One should ask why Pacheco, who was a
        student volunteer in the laboratory at the time, did not just pitch
        in and clean the cages for the monkeys' well-being.
            And the experiments were valuable: because of insights gained from
        them stroke victims have been rehabilitated.  This contradicts
        Westfall's statement that 'not a single treatment that worked in
        animals worked in humans.'
            Believe me, animal rights activists' attacks on medical researchers
        and on those who tell the truth about research will ultimately harm
        the readers of these pages by slowing medical progress.  The public
        should be alarmed and outraged at this prospect."

        Adrian R. Morrison, Director,
        Office of Animal Research Issues
        National Institutes of Mental Health
        Washington, D. C.

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Rich Young                             | Phone: (716) 253-7176
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