physicians committee scientist had to act quickly this summer when the Taiwanese government announced plans to infect beagle puppies with rabies by exposing them to rabid ferret badgers a terribly cruel and crude approach to addressing a recent outbreak of the virus.
The scientist immediately began a campaign condemning the experiments as cruel and unnecessary and calling for valid research conducted without harming animals world wide media were also alerted to the Taiwanese council of agriculture's plans to subject the puppies to paralysis anxiety
confusion and death all to show that the puppies could be infected with rabies
you're in a lab sure but instead of scientist there are children everywhere all dissecting frogs dissecting though is a loose description one seems to have ripped the leg off his truck and stuck it down his neighbors shirt in what surely cant be a variable controlled way another is carefully a diagram strait from the textbook in the heading a third has misspelled the word frog slowly it draws on you death might not be furthing the spread of knowledge after all you have laid down your life in fact to make biology fun
against all this the common arguments for using animals in teach seem fairly weak isn't cutting up a mouse a corn stone of a good old fashioned hearty education maybe but cant kids just join the scouts instead and in any case im sure the really boisterous will already be pulling flies apart in their spare time will our future scientist be hopelessly unskilled without some live practice first not really such techniques are specific and taught on the job and a couple of dissection sessions are unlikely to teach much lasting expertise
schools are universities are also the places where odd things can happen to experiments animals after the ferret experiment our supervisor snipped out the animals heart with a pair of sciccors and let us hold it as it stopped beating and experience certainly but harly necessary a 1995 study showed that kids became inclined to mutilate animals as they dissect them racing to gouge the eyes out for example or seeing how many organs they can fit into its mouth again rather unlikely to happen in one of our ever regulated
rabies experiments . 2014 good medicine
gill m 2014 aug 16 animal research yes but in schools the spectator
