TY - JOUR AU - HEDGES, ROBERT AB - Nature Vol. 293 15 October 1981 CORRESPONDENCE animals were used in acute toxicity tests, of should use such an important occasion as the Animal pain which the LD is an example. In this case a !50th BA anniversary to put forward a model recent government committee' conceded, of the relationship of man to the primates SIR- Your editorial on "Protection for " .... LD s must cause appreciable pain to a testifies to physical anthropology being more laboratory animals" (Nature 17 September, proportion of the animals subjected to them". than off-beat, and to the continuing primacy p.l73) is most welcome. It is no longer enough Most experiments involving application of of Darwinian ways of thought. Is it likely that for universities and research workers to substances to animals' eyes, and psychological speculations based on miscellaneous maintain an aloof silence or to claim that they experiments employing aversive stimuli, are observations of the variety of human culture are working within the law. Public opinion two more examples of procedures carried out will be able to solve the problem of how, why will not accept such an attitude. I am sure that under certificate A. and when the divide between humans TI - Incendiary subject JF - Nature DO - 10.1038/293506d0 DA - 1981-10-15 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/incendiary-subject-4FnJOG0cHx SP - 506 EP - 506 VL - 293 IS - 5833 DP - DeepDyve ER -