sábado, julho 24, 2004

Someone ought to blow their PC brains out!

Um "simpático" grupo terrorista PC conseguiu interromper a construção de um laboratório de experimentação animal na Universidade de Oxford, conforme a NewScientist.com
Oxford University revealed on Monday that by "mutual consent" it had agreed with the construction firm Montpellier Plc to end their contract to build the biomedical research facility [...] following an intimidation campaign by animal rights extremists, which targeted shareholders.

The lab was being built to house research into diseases like Alzheimer's disease.

About 98% of the animals housed at the new lab would be rodents, but some primates would be kept too. The new lab would consolidate and replace existing labs at the university.

Tipu Aziz, a consultant neurosurgeon at Oxford University, says: "Animal rights terrorism is the most immediate threat to the British population." The extremists will "hold hostage the future of British public health", he warns.

"What has happened to Montpellier is coercion and blackmail – it's as simple as that. [...]" says Mark Matfield, director of the Research Defence Society, which represents scientists who use animals in their research.
Faço minhas as palavras do Dr. Aziz e acrescento que o problema de saúde pública não é exclusivamente inglês. É de todos.
# Lançado por PSA às 4:58:00 da tarde
"In North America the black bear was seen by [Samuel] Hearne swimming for hours with widely open mouth, thus catching, like a whale, insects in the water. Even in so extreme a case as this, if the supply of insects were constant, and if better adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more aquatic in their structure and habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale."
Darwin, Charles; "The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection" (On the origin and transitions of organic beings with peculiar habits and structure)