As a medical historian, besides writer and publisher of books on the dangerous futility and consequent dangerousness of animal experimentation in medical research, I receive literature and letters on the subject from all over the world. Mrs Overell says the truth, even if the media, not surprisingly, keep mum about it. Such doctors are forming leagues in various countries the first was born in Germany in the late '70s, right after the publication of the book Slaughter of the Innocent , others followed in Italy, Great Britain, U.S.A. - and if it is true that those doctors still form a minority, it is equally true that it would be a blunder in this case to use the term 'minority' with contempt. A more proper definition would be 'an elite'.
Every elite is a minority.
Individiuals who keep clinging to obsolete notions, long disproved, constitute inevitably a majority, but hardly ever an elite. To me that Dame Ballin sound more like a lobbyist for the Laboratory Animal Breeders Association than a progressive scientist.