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[img]2019m9x/ct_eyyjsbm_eyyjsbreada_0166_201909[/img] To paraphrase 18th-cent
[img]2019m9x/ct_eyyjsbm_eyyjsbreada_0166_201909[/img] To paraphrase 18th-cent
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2024-08-09
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To paraphrase 18th-century statesman Edmund Burke, "all that is needed for the triumph of a misguided cause is that good people do nothing." One such cause now seeks to end biomedical research because of the theory that animals have rights ruling out their use in research. Scientists need to respond forcefully to animal rights advocates, whose arguments are confusing the public and thereby threatening advances in health knowledge and care. Leaders of the animal rights movement target biomedical research because it depends on public funding, and few people understand the process of health care research. Hearing allegations of cruelty to animals in research settings, many are perplexed that anyone would deliberately harm an animal.
For example, a grandmotherly woman staffing an animal rights booth at a recent street fair was distributing a brochure that encouraged readers not to use anything that comes from or is tested in animals—no meat, no fur, no medicines. Asked if she opposed immunizations, she wanted to know if vaccines come from animal research. When assured that they do, she replied, " Then I would have to say yes." Asked what will happen when epidemics return, she said, " Don’ t worry, scientists will find some ways of using computers." Such well-meaning people just don’ t understand.
Scientists must communicate their message to the public in a compassionate, understandable way—in human terms, not in the language of molecular biology. We need to make clear the connection between animal research and a grandmother’ s hip replacement, a father’ s bypass operation, a baby’ s vaccinations, and even a pet’ s shots. To those who are unaware that animal research was needed to produce these treatments, as well as new treatments and vaccines, animal research seems wasteful at best and cruel at worst.
Much can be done. Scientists could "adopt" middle school classes and present their own research. They should be quick to respond to letters to the editor, lest animal rights misinformation go unchallenged and acquire a deceptive appearance of truth. Research institutions could be opened to tours, to show that laboratory animals receive humane care. Finally, because the ultimate stakeholders are patients, the health research community should actively recruit to its cause not only well-known personalities such as Stephen Cooper, who has made courageous statements about the value of animal research, but all who receive medical treatment. If good people do nothing there is a real possibility that an uninformed citizenry will extinguish the precious embers of medical progress.
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misunderstanding
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文章第一段提到18世纪政治家埃德蒙-德伯克的话,“被误导的事业想要取得胜利,所需要的就是好人袖手旁观”。紧接着说,其中这样的一项事业就是现在试图终止生物医学研究,因为动物有权利排除它们在研究中的使用。科学家需要对动物权利倡导者做出强有力的回应,他们的观点让公众感到困惑,从而威胁到卫生知识和卫生保健的进步。因此,大众对于生物医学研究是有误解的。而作者引用埃德蒙-德伯克的话,旨在引出大众的这种误解。故填入“misunderstanding”。
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