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"We cannot solve the problems
we have created with the same thinking that created them."
—Albert Einstein, PhD (1879
— 1955)
Einstein received the Nobel Prize in physics in 1922. His
General Theory of Relativity laid the foundation for cosmology
and our understanding of physical reality.
"We sacrificed daily from one
to three dogs, besides rabbits and other animals, and after
four years experience, I am of the opinion that not one of
these experiments on animals was justified or necessary."
— Dr. George Hoggan (1875),
student of Claude Bernard, MD, a leading and ardent vivisectionist
Bernard (1813 — 1878) was France’s most famous
physiologist. In his 1865 book, "Introduction to the
Study of Experimental Medicine," Bernard argues that
progress in medicine is not possible without animal-based
physiological research. He taught that the researcher must
not be hampered by the blood and cries of his animal subjects.
"During my medical education
… I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary."
— Carl Jung, MD (1875-1961)
Jung is the founder
of analytical psychology. His break with Freud is an important
event in the history of psychoanalytic thought. Jung stressed
the human psyche’s quest for spiritual and archetypal meaning
vs. Freud’s emphasis on sex and aggression.
"The inhumanity of science concerns
me, as when I was tempted to kill a rare snake that I may
ascertain its species. I feel that this is not the means of
acquiring true knowledge." —
Henry David Thoreau, Journal (1854)
Thoreau (1817 — 1862) described himself as "a
transcendentalist and natural philosopher." His essay,
"Civil Disobedience," influenced both Gandhi and
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Vivisection
has done little for the art of the doctor at the bedside,
but it has done immeasurable harm to the character and mind
of the rising generation of doctors." —
Dr. Rudolph Hammer, LLD (1909)
"Atrocities are not less atrocities
when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research."
— George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Shaw was the 1925 Nobel Laureate for Literature. Best
known for his plays and essays, he was a theatre critic, political
activist, socialist, and an opponent of war.
"Whenever people say, ‘We mustn’t
be sentimental,’ you can take it they are about to do something
cruel. And if they add, ‘We must be realistic,’ they mean
they are going to make money out of it." —
Brigid Brophy (1929- )
Brigid Brophy is an English-Irish novelist and playwright.
"We are drowning and suffocating
unanesthetized animals in the name of science…. We are producing
frustration ulcers in experimental animals under shocking
conditions in the name of science…. We are observing animals
for weeks, months, even years, under infamous conditions in
the name of science…." —
Robert Gesell, MD, Professor of Physiology, University of
Michigan, speaking to his colleagues in the American Physiological
Society (1952)
"I abhor vivisection…. I know
of no achievement through vivisection, no scientific discovery
that could not have been obtained without such barbarism and
cruelty." — Charles
W. Mayo, MD (1961), son of the co-founder of the Mayo Clinic
Dr. Charles W. Mayo (1898 — 1968) was a skilled
surgeon and a member of the Mayo Clinic’s Board of Governors.
The Mayo Clinic is consistently ranked among the top three
U.S. hospitals.
"Kindness to animals must be
taught to our students early in life." —
John Ames, MD, (1969)
"Ask the experimenters why they
experiment on animals, and the answer is ‘Because the animals
are like us.’ Ask the experimenters why it is morally O.K.
to experiment on animals, and the answer is: ‘Because the
animals are not like us.’ Animal experimentation rests on
a logical contradiction." —
Professor Charles R. Magel (1980)
"Giving cancer to laboratory
animals has not and will not help us to understand the disease
or to treat those persons suffering from it."
— Albert Sabin, MD (1986), developer
of the live-virus polio vaccine
Sabin (1906 — 1993) was a physician and microbiologist
who developed a live-virus polio vaccine that helped curb
the spread of the then deadly disease.
"It is totally unconscionable
to subject defenseless animals to mutilation and death, just
so a company can be the first to market a new shade of nail
polish, or a new improved laundry detergent."
— Abigail "Dear Abby"
Van Buren, testifying before Congress, (1988)
Abigail Van Buren is a well-known syndicated advice
columnist and author.
"At present it is a rare person
that emerges from medical training with his or her humanity
intact." — Journal
of the American Medical Association, Vol. 261, p. 2011, (1989)
"We suffer from different diseases
and we respond in different ways to drugs. Using animals to
‘try out’ products intended for humans is at best useless
and at worst … dangerously misleading." —
Vernon Coleman, MD, to the International Scientific Conference,
Paris, (1989)
"It [referring to dog labs] did
more to damage my identity as a physician than anything else.
I learned nothing physiological. I learned that life is cheap,
and that misery can be ignored." —
Murry Cohen, MD, (1990s)
Cohen is founding co-chair of the Medical Research
Modernization Committee. He has authored numerous books, articles,
chapters and letters on animal experimentation, including
"Of Pigs, Primates, and Plagues," a scientific critique
of xenotransplantation.
"By and large students are taught
that it is ethically acceptable to perpetrate, in the name
of science, what from the point of view of the animals would
certainly qualify as torture. By the time [the students] arrive
in the labs they have been programmed to accept the suffering
around them." — Jane
Goodall, PhD, Through a Window — My 30 Years With the
Chimpanzees in Gombe (1990)
Dr. Jane Goodall is a world-famous primatologist whose
decades of field research in Africa have contributed significantly
to our understanding of chimpanzees and humans. She is author
of several books and an internationally recognized lecturer.
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