I am sometimes asked, if animal experimentation is so heinous and dead-end, why does it keep getting funded? In simple terms, we’re stupid. ...

Adapted from a chapter in Monsters and Pygmies I began researching Martin Seligman’s experiments on dogs in 2003 for a (unpublished) book I ...

A few days ago, I posted a conversation between Richard Dawkins, the well-known bulldog of Darwinian evolution and Peter Singer, arguably th...

Call it what you want, but by any name it’s seedy and corrupt. In 1997/98 when the University of Wisconsin, Madisons’s NIH primate center ac...

See too: Dorothy's Wake .

First, read this (and note the multiple mutilations of the poor mouse's ear.): UW-Madison seeks better supervision of research. Deborah ...

An anonymous (how very brave) comment recently claimed that I hide my true identity on this blog. It's true that I don't paste my na...

Mostly, we don’t think too deeply about the things we do. We do them for various reasons. Tradition and fashion, though apparently and somet...

chicagotribune.com Leading Alzheimer's researcher: Animal experiments will not help humans MCT News Service October 23, 2009 The Society...