{"id":753783,"date":"2018-07-05T09:40:12","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T13:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=753783"},"modified":"2018-07-05T09:40:12","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T13:40:12","slug":"can-more-candor-win-back-support-for-animal-research-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=753783","title":{"rendered":"Can more candor win back support for animal research? NO"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>More transparency won\u2019t stop us from doing what we\u2019re doing. You can\u2019t put a good face on animals being seriously injured or killed.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>DAVID GRIMM:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;In the early 2000s, animal rights groups got wind of a lab at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson that used surgery on live dogs to teach medical students. Activist campaigns forced the school to switch to pigs, but it was soon assailed again. \u201cThe dean was getting thousands of calls and emails,\u201d says Thomas Lohmeier, a cardiovascular researcher at the center who uses dogs to develop cardiac implants for people. \u201cSo we shut down the pig lab, too. The university just didn\u2019t want to deal with it anymore.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Lohmeier kept his own research under the radar for 30 years for fear of being targeted. \u201cI was concerned about myself and my family,\u201d he says. \u201cI was worried they\u2019d shut my research down, too.\u201d He thinks transparency won\u2019t stop animal rights activists, let alone bring the public back. \u201cYou can explain why your research is important, and this and that, but the animal rights folks won\u2019t care.\u201d One animal rights activist, SAEN Co-Founder Michael Budkie, says Lohmeier is right. \u201cMore transparency won\u2019t stop us from doing what we\u2019re doing. You can\u2019t put a good face on animals being seriously injured or killed&#8221;.&#8217;<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2018\/06\/cataclysmic-wake-call-can-more-candor-win-back-support-animal-research\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mMDsY5pUoA8?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAVID GRIMM: &#8216;In the early 2000s, animal rights groups got wind of a lab at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson that used surgery on live dogs to teach medical students. Activist campaigns forced the school to switch to pigs, but it was soon assailed again. \u201cThe dean was getting thousands of calls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":753784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18,23,24],"tags":[27,29,35],"class_list":["post-753783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethics","category-rights","category-science","tag-cruelty","tag-experimentation","tag-protection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=753783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":753785,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753783\/revisions\/753785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/753784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=753783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=753783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=753783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}