Speaking to the West Coast: A Review
I have now finished a five day speaking tour of research institutions on the West Coast. Here’s what happened. Monday April 20th – I headed out to the University of Washington. My first engagement was...
View ArticlePeta – Out with the new, In with the old!
It seems Peta is running out of news lately – so its front page has decided to bring back the story of mistreatment of animals at Oregon National Primate Research Center – a story which turned out to...
View ArticleReport: Animal Rights Conference – Part 2
This is the second part of my report on the animal rights conference. Read Part 1 here. Discovered! As I stood in line to enter the video room I was recognized by a man called Gary, who knew of my UK...
View ArticleReport: Animal Rights Conference – Part 4
We come to my final day at the Animal Rights Conference, but it is worth quickly looking back over the last few days. Part 1 – Looks at AR violence and includes recordings of Camille Hankins (Win...
View ArticleThe Monkey of the Baskervilles
If you watched the news or picked up a newspaper yesterday you’ll already be aware that scientists in Japan have created genetically modified (GM) marmoset monkeys that pass the transgene, in this case...
View Article“What Drives ‘animal researchers’ Like Me?”
As World Week for Animals in Laboratories (a week of animal rights misinformation) comes to a close, we have a guest post from Nancy Haigwood, director at Oregon National Primate Research Center...
View ArticleDefending Against the Inaccurate (and sometimes downright false)
Each year, as the rainy season returns to Oregon, so too does another all-too-predictable event: new claims of abuse leveled against my employer the Oregon National Primate Research Center. Nearly...
View ArticleNo Scares for ONPRC Monkeys at Halloween
Well people are always bugging us to include more footage from biomedical facilities – here is something recently released by ONPRC: It was nice to see this story appearing on CNN’s iReport. “Last...
View ArticleOregon Scientists seek to understand the roots of Alcoholism
Just a year ago Professor David Jentsch wrote here about the importance of animal research in developing better ways to treat addiction; now Jim Newman of the Oregon National Primate Research Centre...
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