AR-News: Violence, coercion and democracy

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http://argument.independent.co.uk/leading_articles/story.jsp?story=485381
Violence, coercion and democracy
28 January 2004 


The right decision has been taken over building a new, large-scale facility in Cambridge dedicated to experimentation on primates, but for the wrong reasons. The university's plans to build the largest facility of its kind in Europe, which would have been a magnet for research involving the use of monkeys, were prompted by advances being made in the medical treatment of such neurological disorders as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, schizophrenia and strokes. Scientists claim that the higher primates, because of their similarity to humans, are the best, and in many cases the only, suitable subjects for this work.


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the wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. he is in front of it - axel munthe

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Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."      Margaret Mead
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