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Pro-vivisectionist Professor Bezkorovainy`s feigned and sarcastic concern about ”bacterial rights” reveals more than he intended.

”. . . New knowledge,” he writes in the Voice, ”is desperately needed if we are to make progress against killer diseases.” This conclusion is an enthymeme: The unstated premise is that animal experiments are needed for new knowledge. Are they?

Centuries of experience prove that such experiments are not a necessary condition of ”new knowledge.”