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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2005 97(21):1565-1566; doi:10.1093/jnci/dji394
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© 2005 Oxford University Press

NEWS

Animal Rights Violence Spreads Fear Through U.K. Research Community

John Illman

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More than 500 British medical scientists have protested against violence by animal rights groups in the United Kingdom by supporting a declaration backing animal research. Drawn up this summer by the Research Defense Society, a scientific campaign group, the declaration includes the signatures of three Nobel laureates, 190 fellows of the Royal Society, and more than 250 academic professors.

But few British scientists are prepared to speak out individually against the violence—characterized by car and letter bombs—brought by extremist groups. Of 25 leading cancer researchers contacted for this article, only three responded, all requesting anonymity. One of these three—who holds one of the approximately . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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