The Basel Declaration have called for a show of solidarity with researchers at the University of Milan who had years of work destroyed when animal rights activists broke into the facility. See previous two links for more background information. Please sign this call of solidarity and share the link. Dear friends, colleagues and everybody in … Continue reading Basel Declaration Calls for Solidarity with Researchers at University of Milan
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Liviya’s Story
Sometimes it may seem like our work doesn’t make a difference in the world. For a stark reminder that it does, we asked Brian Anderson at Allentown, Inc. to write a guest post in which he could share the very personal story of how animal research saved his daughter’s life. Virtually my entire career has … Continue reading Liviya’s Story
Essay on Animal Testing? Look No Further
Students writing essays on animal research can now celebrate. Understanding Animal Research, a UK not-for-profit which explains the role of animals in medical research, has produced a fantastic set of resources aimed at helping school and university students create well-referenced essays. The resources provides an introduction to five animal research-related topics including "costs and benefits" … Continue reading Essay on Animal Testing? Look No Further
Are scientists sadists?
Scientists working with animals are often accused by animal rights activists of being ‘monsters’, ‘murderers’, ‘sadists’ and worse. On the other side, animal rights leaders see themselves standing on a moral pedestal above the rest of the population, while simultaneously inciting to violence against fellow human beings they have never met. The contradiction is lost … Continue reading Are scientists sadists?
A Closer Look at How Animal Research Progresses from Idea to Study
Unfortunately, the “how” and “why” of the research process is of much less interest, and receives far less attention, than the “what did they find?!” part of research. The latter is what you’ll see—if we’re lucky from the science outreach perspective— on television, in the science and popular media, Facebook, Twitter, and conversations world-wide. Meanwhile, … Continue reading A Closer Look at How Animal Research Progresses from Idea to Study
The Science of Linking
The growth of social media has given organisations new ways of engaging with audiences across the internet. However, a website’s core traffic is still derived from search engines, primarily Google (90% global market share). To increase traffic, a website needs to increase its position in search results for its key terms. This position is determined … Continue reading The Science of Linking
Raising the bar: What makes an effective public response in the face of animal rights campaigns?
For some scientists and institutions engaged in animal research, activist campaigns against them are a fact of life. These campaigns vary in tactics, scope, and longevity. At one end of the scale are the limited scope campaigns, perhaps when a paper reprints, more or less verbatim, an activist press release manufactured from misrepresenting publicly-available records. … Continue reading Raising the bar: What makes an effective public response in the face of animal rights campaigns?
The British Government is Speaking of Research
Animal Rights groups are getting smart in their attempt to influence policy in the United Kingdom. The BUAV (British Union for the Abolition Vivisection) already have a collection of "pet" MPs who they use to create EDMs and put their signatures to letters in local newspapers. On the 5th February 2013 they convinced the Conservative … Continue reading The British Government is Speaking of Research
Speaking of Research 