I won’t take exception to your observation that there may be a money component involved, and you probably have a point there.

I’ll give you another one: yeah, maybe we really do know enough about the ill-effects of smoking.

As for overall health, there is a pretty big distinction between wellnes and survival.

Sure, healthy habits and excercise are better than a pill. No arguement there. The problem for many of us is that there IS NO natural treatment for people like me. There isn’t one for many different conditions. Many of us are in fact alive only because medical scientists were able to determine what’s going on and what to do about it via animal based research.

There isn’t a natural treatment for everything out there. No matter how much we’d like there to be. There also isn’t always an alternative to animal based research.

As for the professor, I think Cameron is on to something: no one deserves the kind of “Heat” being placed on her. That is terrorism, no matter how you feel about her work.

Quite frankly, before I discuss the people alledgedly harmed by medicines, shouldn’t I try to consider the number that may have been saved?

If it was a matter of public pressure and withholding of funds for research, I would call that “putting the heat” on Professor London. Acts of terrorism like this are NOT justifiable no matter what your opinion is on this matter.

Every experiment needs to be questioned as to it’s real validity. If you looked deeper, you would see that so much of it is a total waste and there to enrich universities and such. We need to question the belief that vivisection is the key to good health. The truth is, other factors are more important and more effective. But see we’ve been taught to believe that “They” are saving us, oh really? In my life, it is natural medicine, my habits, my eating, and herbs that have improved my life, not a pill. I sympathize with your situation very much…but most of the time natural health is much more effective, not toxic, for chronic diseases. Take care.

Oh, they’re also generally hippocrites. If their own child’s life were on the line methinks they might feel differently. Or would they?

This subject was on my mind this morning as I got ready for work. I realized something: Read Soliel’s post above, and you will see that he/she seems more concerned with having good kharma or joss or whatever, as well as a clear concience, than being able to help human beings survive.

I have Type 1 Diabetes. If it were not for animal research, I would be dead today. Since I’m only 37, I really don’t think it’s time. My best friend’s step-daughter is 12 and type 1 diabetic. She wouldn’t have made it to 7 or 8. Would Soliel have us DIE so she could have a clear conscience and good joss?

And these arogant jerks call us selfish.

Too bad the parts of the brain responsible for critical thinking are underdeveloped in these people. As such, they would make a poor substitute for lab animals in certain neurological and psychological studies.

Having said that, I cannot agree with her research. Study nicotine addiction? No. We already know everything we need to know. To make innocent beings suffer, and they so suffer, for this is heartless and the karma involved is so heavy no good will come of it. What a waste. She is an attractive women from a difficult background but obviously she has no compassion or ethics towards other beings. I do not support her and her research. If you want to know about nicotine addiction study real people in real living situations.

Global warming will have to wait. Wonder if ALF is buying carbon credits from the goreacle to cover their firebombing escapades, you know, to keep everything in balance.

Cool how eco-terrorists could create their very own closed loop system!

/sarc