Neuroreality I

Abstract

The felonious fringe. Over the last decade, dozens of neuroscience research projects have been victims of criminal break-ins by animal rights extremists. Their evangelical leaders surely cannot be charged with malicious subtlety: Even painless research is fascism, supremacism. I don't believe human beings have 'the right to life.' That's a supremacist perversion. A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. Animal research is immoral even if it is essential. Even if animal tests produced a cure for AIDS, we'd be against it. Only Joe Six-Packs of science, not the Einsteins, go into animal experimentation. It's not better cages we work for, but empty cages. Economic loss is the only thing the vivisector understands. We have to make them pay higher premiums before we shut them down completely. Ending animal research is as urgent as the obligation to crush the Nazi oppression of the Jews. Meat eating is primitive, barbaric and arrogant, and pet ownership is fascism. News reports from the animal research rights battlefields: Dr. Michael Carey, a neurosurgeon in Vietnam and now Professor of Neurosurgery at Louisiana State University School of Medicine, was targeted by animal rights extremists in 1989. Their protests and false charges halted his federally-supported research on missile wounds to the brain. Drs. Carey and Oseid (his wife) repeatedly have been picketed, harassed, defamed and have received anonymous death threats. While under personal and professional attack, Dr. Carey served in the Desert Storm operation as the only neurological surgeon with Vietnam combat-wound experience. During his four months in Saudi Arabia, Dr. …