Animal Research

The Kevles article was simply a rehash of the shopworn excuses used by the research community for years to perpetuate its obscenely lucrative practice of animal torture in laboratories.

No less an authority than Dr. Charles Mayo, founder of the world-renowned Mayo Clinic, said, “I abhor vivisection. It should at least be curbed. Better, it should be abolished. I know of no achievement through vivisection, no scientific discovery, that could not have been obtained without such barbarism and cruelty. The whole thing is evil.”

The prestigious Medical Research Modernization Committee, composed of 650 medical doctors, psychologists and other health experts, has stated that 65-75% of all animal experiments are totally useless and a waste of taxpayers’ dollars.

Kevles did make one comment worth noting. She said, “These zealots have the biomedical community on the run.”

As the great Al Jolson used to say, “You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.”

BOB BARKER

Beverly Hills