When animal rights activists first targeted research at the University of Kansas Medical Center last year they trotted out gory posters of crazed monkeys with weird electrodes poking out of their skulls.
Their latest posters have moved from bizarro horror flick to gun-sliging Western.
Last week, activist Jason Miller, best known for his sometimes-bloody defense of deer in Shawnee Mission Park, posted a provocative poster on his (multiple) blogs. It was enough to cause KU Med officials to alert the authorities.
The showdown started in October, when Bite Club of KC first paraded on the sidewalks about the medical center in honor of Primate Liberation Week. Miller and crew took issue with the work of researcher Paul Cheney, who uses monkeys in his brain mapping research.
Out on the east coast, Maine resident Michael Bishop caught wind of the KU Med testing and got artistic about his outrage. Bishop advocates illegal activity in defense of animals and the signature quote at the end of his e-mail says "Don't rock the boat; sink the fucker!" But he's also got a three-year-old daughter and says he doesn't engage in arrest-able activities himself. The poster he put together walks a fine line, though.
"My heart was broken when I learned of the atrocities being committed in the name of science by the two people named in the flyer [sic], and I hoped it would bring awareness to the issue," Bishop tells me in an e-mail. "I spent a number of years doing anti-vivisection protest and have created a number of flyers [sic], detailing the information about whatever subject was at hand, but this one was my first 'WANTED' poster and I'm sure there will be many more in the future."
Bishop shot off some e-mails to Navneet Dhillon and Cheney but says he hasn't gotten a response. Miller, who uploaded the poster on Bite Club's Web site the morning he got it, says his group intends to spread the flier around town.
I sent the link to Marcia Nielsen, vice chancellor of public affairs for KU Med, to see what she thought. First of all, there's a good reason Dhillon didn't respond to Bishop's e-mail. According to Nielsen, Dhillon doesn't even work with primates, only cell cultures and human specimens.
"My reaction to the poster is that we are, of course, seriously concerned with threats made against our researchers," Nielsen wrote. "But the bottom line is that we remain committed to finding cures and therapies to treat disease and to save lives."
And, rest assured, Nielsen added: "Whenever anyone on our campus has received threats, we take them seriously and notify the appropriate authorities."
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Non-human animal experiments are not relevant to the health of humans. Being a nurse practitioner in psychiatry, I can tell you that even amongst human beings, drugs and chemicals are metabolized differently, and especially between species, major differences will be found in pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics; in other words how drugs or chemicals work on the body, or how the body works on drugs or chemicals. Testing on others species gives us incorrect data, which cannot be extrapolated to humans. A few years ago the FDA reported that 92 out of every 100 drugs that successfully passed animal trials, subsequently failed human trials. Why does it continue? Simple. It continues because certain people in the industry are profiting greatly; people like medical doctors, pharmaceutical, cosmetic and chemical council executives to be exact. Something most people don’t know is that taxpayers are funding this giant mess, as grant money is given to universities and other organizations to do testing which in the end proves nothing. The vivisection industry spends millions of dollars yearly on campaigns to tell people that it is necessary, and play on the need for hope that humans have for finding a cure. They even went so far as to put a billboard up in Seattle with a picture of a white rat on the left, and a little girl on the right, saying “who would you rather see live?” They have to do these PR campaigns because the entire industry is a fraud. Dr. Kass of Harvard Medical School puts this all into perspective when he said that the real credit for eradication of many diseases should, rather than go to vivisectionists, should go to improvements in public health, sanitation, and to improved standard of living.
To the people who think they're family members have been cured by locking up other species, often very docile ones, in cages, creating illnesses in them and then trying to cure them with hopes that it will cure humans, the ONLY thing that cures is VEGANISM. It cures by preventing in the first place. I HAVE done the researching of articles, and meta analyses, and YES a plant based diet will stop most diseases from EVER starting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGCdc9quABU&feature=player_embedded
pink ribbons, walks for march of dimes, (aptly named, as all they do is rake in the dimes, and still, of COURSE no cure), walking for cardiovascular disease (REALLY? give me a break...stop chomping on carcass and sucking moo juice and you won't NEED walks for cures which are bogus anyway). ALL this is just capitalism gone bloody wrong.
http://veganster.org
Can we get rid of this "innocent" animal illusion. An animal is no more or less innocent than a rock - they are not moral agents. If you suggest there are "innocent" animals then are there "guilty" animals - when one animal follows its instinct and kills another is it ok to test on it? The whole concept of "innocent" and "guilty" animals is ridiculous.
Secondly, the benefits of animal research can be seen over history. Penicillin, TB Vaccine, Polio Vaccine (all but eradicated), Smallpox (eradicated), insulin, the list goes on, and would include surgical procedures and scanning techniques to boot.
Let's wake up now.
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It's beyond ridiculous that government inspectors had to intervene on behalf of the animals being deprived of WATER in a KU vivisection lab. Those "scientists" were cited for over 160 violations, including WATER DEPRIVATION causing animals to suffer from dehydration. If even the most basic of animal needs is being ignored...if the animals are disrespected at that most basic level...I shudder to think what further unimaginable horrors transpire behind those doors. Those who withhold the water and inflict the pain are the terrorists...NOT Jason Miller and his ilk.
Their is no science in deliberately inflicting pain on humans or animals. That was done to Jews by means of vivisection in concentration camps. The result? When the war was over those very German scientists scuttled off like cochroaches to hide between the cracks! You need to be tried you vivisectors! You are violating animal protection laws! By inflicting pain in the name of science calls for a trial German vivisector style! WE WILL NEVER STOP UNTIL YOU END YOUR SICK BRUTALISING OF INNOCENT, INTELLIGENT LIFE!
SHAME!!! ON!!! YOU!!!
The "scientists" have been exposed. It is just a matter of time and hard work to get everyone on board. Keep up the good work.
Watch this video to see the horrors hidden behind the walls of vivisection laboratories:
http://www.stopanimaltests.com...
No laws, certainly not the (misleadingly-titled) Animal Welfare Act, regulate any experiments on nonhuman animals. Rubberstamping committees of fellow vivisectors and vivisection sympathizers approve nearly every proposed experiment that even gets put before (also misleadingly-titled) Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees. Even if the law did regulate actual experiments (which it doesn't - just cage cleaning, etc) it still excludes rats, mice, birds, and all cold-blooded animals - estimated at 85% of the animals imprisoned in vivisection laboratories. Most importantly, no regulation can make injustice right, injustice must be abolished.
Don't believe the lies of the vivisection industry - it's all about continuing the speciesist status quo, primarily for economic gain.
k, i will try and bite my tongue and not explore your atrocious grammer - mainly because im sure mine is not great either, but.. tongue bitten.
"do a little research before you start attacking people who have a career doing something you "don't like". it makes you sound ignorant."
correct me if im wrong but it sounds like you have not done much research into AR activism either and are bashing what are -believe it or not- well respected careers which some of these activists have. sounds like a blatent contradiction on your part.
try putting yourself in the place of the non-human animals you must encounter at work. im not attacking your right to a living, but questioning the offensive behaviour toward non-human and human animals. defensive rights must take priority over offensive 'rights'. would you not wish the same for yourself if someone tried to take advantage of you for an offensive purpose.
we can think of a better way to take care of ourselves without oppresive experimentations on helpless animals.
As a lab animal technician I can tell you that these animals are treated better than any animal that is in any household. To compare me to Hitler is a little harsh considering I am doing my part to better human race and save lives. What do you do to matter to mankind? Tree huggers just don't seem to have anything better to I guess. For instance, products that say "We Do Not Test on Animals" is lying by omission. They contract it out to people like me who do their dirty work. The government mandates it. What about chemical warfare? Anyone concerned about what could happen? Government uses animals for that too. I know that everyone is not going to have the same opinion but do a little research before you start attacking people who have a career doing something you "don't like". It makes you sound ignorant.
Vivisection is big business for everyone from the biomedical-pharmachemical-agribusiness PR machine to the kid who hoses the cages. It's not about finding "cures". Those of us whose health has been damaged due to the system's relying on scientifically fraudulent animal data know better. The system makes billions and trillions on keeping us sick and using pharmachemicals.
If you are so stupid and naive to think that what the vivisectionists do is good work and it's helping people, you are living in the dark ages, and you need to do a little homework before showing us what an idiot you really are. I used to think the "scientists" in their white lab coats could only be doing "good", but with a little objective research, I easily discovered the truth and the horrors of it all. People like MikeB continue to reinforce my belief that humans are by far the most simple minded and selfish animals on the planet.
Swans "There was a violation and a consequence, these people will likely lose their careers for this."
What violation? The article doesn't mention any. The two researchers being targeted are being targeted only for doing their valuable and well regulated jobs. Navneet Dhillon doesn't even do research on monkeys himself, though in addition to his own clinical research on human subjects he works with scientists who do research on primates. He's hardly an exception, the vast majority of scientists and medics who support animal research don't do it themselves. All research methods, clinical, in vitro, animal, computational are complementary...they all provide different pieces of information that together solve the medical puzzle.
Seems as if the process of inspection and regulation has worked well.
There was a violation and a consequence, these people will likely lose their careers for this.
It didn't take a bunch of most wanted posters and misappropriated monkey photos propagandized the animal activist movement to accomplish this. The system is already self policing - clearly - and isn't helped by obvious additional hype.
Animal research doesn�t just help people�it helps animals, as well. Vaccines, treatments, and cures for disease have improved and extended the lives of millions of pets and farm animals.
Animal Activists are terrorists.
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KU Medical Center is in violation of Animal Protection Laws. They maintain they are a compliant institution but the facts prove otherwise. Nielsen is a lier who says whatever is politically correct to sway public opinion to KU Medical's sadistic ways. Open the doors to your facility, KU, and show the public what really happens!!! It's not about saving lives BUT it is about getting tax funded grant money to perform needless experiments on sentient beings. The government via the HHS and the NIH ignore requests from animal activists, the universities ignore requests, and the general public just don't give a shit. But there are those of us who care: About the animals and the fact that vivisection does not work. To many drugs tested on animals get recalled and besides its our environment that is killing us. Why should a dog be forced to endure cigarette smoke to find a cure for a human vice? And as far as the AETA is concerned...it is as void a document as the Patriot Act. Just look at the sponsors of the AETA...they promote the killing of gay people in Uganda. They are the Family and they are terrorists promoting violence.
Michael Bishop:
As well as the wanted poster format, I think it's the line you wrote where you used the wrong word, (THAN - where you should have used the word THEN) that got their hackles up.
Let us know when the MIB/FBI and any other DOJ jockeys show up to talk to you. I've had a visit from them before. I don't want another visit due to Jason's and your jackassery.
I see that the anti-viv folk have turned up spouting their usual lies, half-truths and misrepresentations about animal research. In particular Stacey shows a profound ignorance of the Animal Welfare Act, and of course the AWA is only one of several components of the system through which animal research is regulated, others include the NIH and Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care.
http://awic.nal.usda.gov/nal_d...
The Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees that every University has regulate the conditions in which animals used for research are housed, and which must approve in detail every study before it can be started.
Society has, through representative democracy, agreed that animal research is permitted and how it is regulated, just as it has for example agreed in what circumstances abortion is legal. Of course not everyone in society agrees with those decisions, but in a democracy there are always non-threatening, non-violent ways to campaign for a change to those laws.
I support animal research because it delivers effective treatments. My own cousin would have almost certainly died from leukemia had it not been for a drug named Gleevec, a drug whose development relied on both animal research and clinical research (real scientists and doctors don't see them being in competition as the ant-vivs would have us believe). That was 8 years ago and while none of us are brave enough to declare his leukemia "cured" the cancer has not come back so the treatment has been very effective this far. The same goes for many other cancers and infectious diseases (eg. HIV) for which effective treatments have been developed over the past couple of decades. Not all these effective treatments are "cures" but then unlike quacks real doctors and scientists are usually reluctant to declare an illness "cured" unless they know for certain that it is.
The reality of animal research is a world away from the blood-soaked, violence fetishizing propaganda of the animal rights fanatics. In reality it is a well regulated and vital part of 21st century medical research, particularly important to exciting new fields such as stem cell medicine and gene therapy.
Ok Before this gets out of hand...
I am the creator of that flyer, and some things need to be cleared up. I can say honestly that my intention for making this a wanted poster style flyer was not to promote any kind of threats or acts of violence to the two people mentioned in it. The "wanted" aspect of it was mean to be satirical, a little bit of humor, though the subject matter being dealt with is quite serious. The intent was to expose the issue. I had no idea that anyone would think more of it than that.
In this Pitch article I am quoted as saying that I would have plans to make many more of these types of flyers, but if the style of it is actually going to make people think I am inviting violence to these people than maybe it is not a format I will use again.
My intent was to generate awareness of this situation so that activists can inform people of what is going on and hopefully bring about an end to these cruel practices.
I'm not sure how you get to sociopath, violent, insane animal rights wackos from people who believe every life is precious?
What do you think of those who fought for the Jews being eradicated by the Nazis? What do you think of those people who fought, marched, protested for the rights of women and blacks.
Violence begets violence, those who perform violent, senseless, cruel, inhumane experiments on animals are the perpetrators of the violence.
There will never be a cure for cancer or aids or (insert illness here)...what is the benefit to the scientists, the drug manufacturers, the doctors and the hospitals? Why come up with cures for anything when life can be prolonged with expensive pills and procedures?
Open your eyes to what is really going on...do you think any of these entities have your best interest in mind? Factory farming, the meat you eat...do you really think they care if what you eat will make you sick - hormones/antibiotics? They are prepping you for the doctors to fill you with drugs to keep you going.
"Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind's capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful stewardship. We are called to treat them with kindness, not because they have rights or power or some claim to equality, but in a sense because they don't; because they all stand unequal and powerless before us." � Matthew Scully
Well, well, lookie here!
Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act
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Force, Violence, Threats
(a) (1) (2) (B) (C)
SupercalifragilisticexSPEEalidocious
Nothing beats letting sociopathic, violent, insane animal rights wackos who froth at the mouth expose their own insanity. Their loss of touch with reality extends to the lies that they propagate about science and scientists. And be aware: if you eat meat or if you have a pet like I do, they consider you to be a violent crazy torturer, too. Their animus and hatred knows no bounds.
Knowledge is power...
"Animal Experimentation: Point Counterpoint"
http://www.stopanimaltests.com...
"The Philosophy of Animal Rights" by Tom Regan
http://www.cultureandanimals.o...
It's a wanted poster!BIG deal!!!
Paul Cheney will burn in hell for what he is doing to our kin.
Well said Dominique and Gerald! These sick sociopaths brutally torture animals in ways beyond our imaginations all day long, then go home at night to their families and play ball with their dogs in the back yard. It's legalized torture and murder, and like Dominique said, if they could do the same to humans, they most certainly would.
The act of vivasection on these animals is soaked in blood. The vivasectors are the violent terrorists of animals, and would do the same to you if they could get away with it. What kind of human can make a pathetic excuse for them? Detached emotionally, narcissistic? Yes! The fact is they have options to pursue, if they wished, to do research in a more efficient way without the use of animals at this time. But want to keep torturing animals because they enjoy it and it is status quo for them to keep receiving their grant money. And like all government agencies want to use our tax dollars, without update their systems into the future. Bottom line is, how many cures have they actually found in the last 35 years? Does torturing and killing animals really find cures for the human bodies? To the people, that blindly believe the vivasectors lies, you have no morals, ethics, or compassion for anything but your own species. I find that horrifying.
Those committing atrocities always urge others to be nonviolent...whether its vivisectors or governments...they always urge their critics to act peacefully while they continue their killing.
The overwhelming majority of violence in the dispute over animal experimentation is carried out by vivisectors against animals...they cannot plausibly urge peace while continuing to kill.
"doesn't cause you ANY degree of embarrassment or cause you to wince, even a little bit?"
Um, no.
"You've lost any degree of credibility with that statement (not to mentione your comparison between Ted Bundy and Dr. Jentsch). Incredible, just incredible."
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"Violence is never the answer."
Rahrahrah! I can picture you spinning cartwheels and shaking your pompons while chanting that! lol Who said anything about violence??? Do you people just pull that out of your asses because you think it makes you look all righteous and moral, the cornerstone of our pious nation? Wow, reading comprehension is NOT your strong point is it? NOBODY anywhere even suggested such except for, well, YOU...are you projecting???
"That coming from someone who waxes his eyebrows"
Is waxing a crime against the earth as well? Just curious...
@Stacey: So, your statement above about "waxing" and "eyebrows" doesn't cause you ANY degree of embarrassment or cause you to wince, even a little bit?
Wow. You've lost any degree of credibility with that statement (not to mentione your comparison between Ted Bundy and Dr. Jentsch). Incredible, just incredible.
I agree with Mike and David. Scientists at KU and people of Kansas need to stand up to the animal rights extremists before somebody gets hurt.
If you want to change the regulations and law pertaining to animal research, lobby congress. Violence is never the answer.
"and it has been approved and continues to be supervised by local and federal agencies charged with regulating animal laboratories."
That coming from someone who waxes his eyebrows...Wow, if that wasn't so pathetic, it'd be hilarious. Is that what you people champion as that which precludes cruelty? The ignorance, the hypocrisy, the absolute idiocy promoting that tired bullshit is astounding, simply astronomical, so massive, in fact, I may need a new thesaurus! Yeah, the AWA, which doesn't cover the animals most tortured, is regulated by the same industry that slaughters animals for food. So, you have to prove once every 18 months that you gave an animal water, big deal, how does that speak for the absolute depraved conditions and torture you inflict on them?
Oh, and let's NOT forget that pain relief is intentionally withheld in tens of thousands of animals. Vivisection is a charlatan's wet dream, fooling an ignorant public with solicitous rhetoric meant to foster a "human life-saving" program against "misanthropist" anti-vivisectors. You know, that is REALLY old, considering I personally knew someone who died a horrific death due to an unanticipated drug reaction, something never determined from animal testing. And nobody EVER said anti-vivisectors are against medical breakthroughs. They're against the barbarism of using animals. You must love your jobs: you get to sociopathically torture living beings at the expense of society and animal lives, the only difference between you and Ted Bundy is, well, he wasn't paid.
Jentsch suggests that the approval of animal experiments by local and federal agencies somehow renders the actions of KUMC vivisectors to be morally acceptable.
This is absurd...agencies do not decide morality...they are regulators, not deities. Tormenting animals is unethical regardless of how many bureaucracies stamp your paperwork or say it's okay.
These so called "scientists" are brutally torturing to death over 50 million innocent animals every year in these laboratory's for no reason except a big paycheck, and we, who want to stop the needless suffering are called "crazies" and "terrorists". When will all the stupid human beings on this planet wake-up to the insanity of what we are doing to the animals?
unbelievable David Jentsch. YOU are talking about being CIVILIZED. Please don't make me ROFLMAO. You are bordering on being ridiculous.
Describe this group and Miller as what they are....Terrorists.....nothing more than that.
Whether you support the ability of scientists to engage in legal, humane and regulated research aimed to improve the health and welfare of humans and animals alike, or whether you are more critical of it, efforts like this are despicable attempts to propagate hateful misinformation. Importantly, the work that these Professors do is of the highest importance, and it has been approved and continues to be supervised by local and federal agencies charged with regulating animal laboratories. Personally targeting scientists for doing the very difficult job that society has asked them to do is beneath contempt. Rather than making "wanted" posters (that have no purpose but to incite violence - a shameful act, at best), perhaps Mr. Bishop should use his computer to email his Congresspersons and the White House. There are civilized ways to protest against animal use (whether it be laboratory research or raising animals for food), this is not it.
The scientists at KU and people of Kansas need to stand up to these animal rights crazies before somebody gets hurt, maybe follow the example set by last years rally at UCLA where scientists and citizens stood up to the bully-boy tactics of the extremists.
http://speakingofresearch.com/...
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