roberts@polya.STANFORD.EDU (Paul Roberts) (04/27/88)
``The stale exercise in futility called animal model psychological research has become a pathetic embarrassment to those of us in the mental health profession who truly care about understanding human psychology and improving people's psychological well-being. It is time to expose this scientific fraud for what is it and to abandon it in favor of research methods which yield results that can apply to, and can affect, the human condition.'' Murry J. Cohen, M.D. Medical Research Modernization Committee ``Over 250 maternal deprivation studies [the separation of newborn kittens, puppies, and other animals from their mothers] have been conducted to date. These experiments have cost over $57,000,000, provided primarily by the federal goverment. Over 7,000 animals were subject to procedures that induced stress, despair, anxiety, general psychological devastation, or even death. The results of this research had little impact on clinical practice ...'' Martin L. Stephens, Ph.D. ``Experimental psychology is particularly fiendish because it is the only area of research in which animals are deliberately tortured as part of the experiment's design. And it the area of research where the greatest amount of suffering is created by the least amount of good.'' Dr. John McArdie Former director of the Laboratory Animal Welfare Humane Society of the United States. ``What we worry about is cage space, cleanliness, training of animal caretakers and nutrition. The organisation cannot say anything about what the animals are used for, so it's like being a good concentration camp guard ... Somebody has to start asking, `What are you doing in those laboratories?' '' Dr. Harold Feinberg Former National Chairman for the American Association for Acreditation of Lab Animal Care.
vu0112@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Cliff Joslyn) (04/27/88)
Polya: I notice that your quotations refer almost exclusively to psychological research on animals. Do you have a position on non-psychological medical research? -- O----------------------------------------------------------------------> | Cliff Joslyn, Cybernetician at Large | Systems Science, SUNY Binghamton, vu0112@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu V All the world is biscuit shaped. . .
jwm@stdc.jhuapl.edu (James W. Meritt) (04/28/88)
Mind dating your abstracts so that I, and others, might get a concept of
their currency and "rate" of offense? Thank-you.
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