Posted on June 22, 2009 by speakingofresearch
Despite progress in California with the public beginning to take a stand against animal rights extremism the regular reports from the ALF website should remind us that we have a long way to go. Here is a selection of ALF attacks in the last month.
June 15th 2009 – Bomb hoax at a university in the [...]
Filed under: Animal Rights News, News | Tagged: ALF, animal liberation front, animal research, animal rights, animal rights extremism, animal testing, arson, bomb haux, effigy, extremism, Germany, incendiary devicem, incendiary devices, Netherlands, Novartis, paedophile, Scientific Resources International, smear campaign, Tom Holder, uk, uruguay | Leave a Comment »
Posted on May 16, 2009 by speakingofresearch
In a pathetic attempt to be noticed, North American Animal Liberation Press Officer (NAALPO), Jason S. Miller, decided to send an email to a group of researchers, research institutions and pro-research groups (including SR).
In an email containing links to typical AR pseudo-science, misinformation and misanthropic philosophy, Jason kindly explained our future:
Your newly formed “vivisector resistance [...]
Filed under: Animal Rights News, News | Tagged: speaking of research, vivisection, Tom Holder, holder, animal liberation, animal liberation front, animal welfare, email, jentsch, north american animal liberation press office, NAALPO, jason miller, jason s miller, miller, pseudo-science, vivisector, anti-capitalism, TPC, Thomas Paine's Corner, Thomas Paine's, alternatives, biopsy, vivisector resistance movement | 8 Comments »
Posted on May 15, 2009 by speakingofresearch
ABC recently ran an expose on HSUS donations – how HSUS have misled the public over their relations with the local humane societies (which run local shelters):
Click here for the video
Check HSUS’s annual budget yourselves (part 2). Of a little over $100 million they receive in donations, only around $6 million (6%) goes towards local [...]
Filed under: Animal Rights News, News | Tagged: ABC, animal rights, donations, hsus, HSUS donations, humane shelters, humane society, humane society of the united states | 7 Comments »
Posted on April 7, 2009 by speakingofresearch
The violent animal rights extremist organization the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) recently released a communique challenging UCLA Pro-Test to a radio debate. Just two working days later and ALF spokesman Jerry Vlasak decided that UCLA Pro-Test had given in and released this statement:
I relish the opportunity to debate not only the lack of scientific merit [...]
Filed under: Animal Rights News, News | Tagged: ucla, vlasak, debate, ALF, animal rights conference, animal liberation front, jerry vlasak, murder, ucla pro-test, vlasic, dr. vlasak, vivisectors, animal rights conference 2003, killed, assasinate researchers | 74 Comments »
Posted on March 25, 2009 by speakingofresearch
Rick Bogle, animal rights extremist, tries to justify the murder of researchers.
Filed under: Animal Rights News, News | Tagged: animal rights extremism, animal rights extremist, extremism, jerry vlasak, murder, murder researchers, primate freedom, primate freedom project, rick bogle, terrorism | Leave a Comment »
Posted on March 19, 2009 by speakingofresearch
As violence continues to dominate the animal rights agenda there are plenty of scientists and researchers who are more than happy to stay out of the spot light. We see articles in local news and student papers containing statements from police, activists and occasionally university officials, but the voice of scientists and researchers is sadly [...]
Filed under: Animal Rights News, Campus Activism, News | Tagged: article, letters, newspaper, scientists, speaking up | Leave a Comment »
Posted on March 10, 2009 by speakingofresearch
Yesterday President Barack Obama took a decision that the scientific community has been eagerly awaiting ever since he was sworn in last January, when he issued an executive order ending the severe restrictions that President George W. Bush imposed on federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research eight years ago. This was however not [...]
Filed under: Animal Rights News, News, Science News | Tagged: animal rights extremism, AR extremism, arson, barack obama, browne, dr heimlich, embyronic stem cell, heimlich, henry heimlich, memorandum on scientific integrity, obama, orac, paul, paul browne, PCRM, president, respectful insolence, stem cells, tom harkin | Leave a Comment »
Posted on March 9, 2009 by speakingofresearch
It’s not ordinarily that I report on the actions of bloggers but it was so refreshing to see their immediate responses to a newspaper article by Simon Chaitowitz. Simon Chaitowitz is the former communications director of PCRM – a psuedo-science organisation whose former spokesman was none other than Jerry violence-against-researchers-is-justified Vlasak. Chaitowitz, who is sadly [...]
Filed under: Animal Rights News, News | Tagged: vlasak, PCRM, bloggers, blogs, drugmonkey, orac, respectful insolence, simon chaitowitz, chaitowitz, research process, replacements, adventures in ethics and science | 4 Comments »
