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- Title
Challenging times.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the Stop Vivisection initiative to ban animal research in Europe. It comments on a hearing by the European Parliament in which activists claimed animal models have no predictive value for human disease. It mentions that efforts by an animal activist infiltrator to neuroscientist Nikos Logothetis that appeared to show maltreatment of macaque monkeys appears to have been staged for the camera. It talks about support from the Max Planck Society supporting animal research.
- Subjects
LABORATORY animals; ANIMAL rights activists; EUROPEAN Parliament; DISEASE research; LOGOTHETIS, Nikos; MAX-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Wissenschaften e.V.; MACAQUES
- Publication
Nature, 2015, Vol 521, Issue 7551, p125
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Editorial
- DOI
10.1038/521125b