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Neuroscientist Halts Research to Stop Extremists

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the everybody-loses dept.

FleaPlus writes "UCLA neuroscience professor Dario Ringach, known for his contributions to our understanding of how the visual system processes information, has been forced to give up his experiments by the actions of animal-rights extremists. Although he and his family had endured harassment and vandalization by animal-rights activists for years, Ringach reconsidered after extremists tried to firebomb a colleague's home and accidentally left their Molotov cocktail on an elderly neighbor's doorstep. Ringach sent an email to animal activist groups saying, 'You win... please don't bother my family anymore.'"

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  1. Terrorists by Profane+MuthaFucka · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    GW Bush doesn't care about American terrorists. Why aren't they in jail? Oh yea, he's too busy doing illegal wiretaps and spending crazy stupid sums of money on shiny new technology which won't work nearly as well as advertized, and forgetting that they way you catch terrorists is with smart people doing old-fashioned police work.

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    1. Re:Terrorists by monkeydo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      It isn't PC to go after liberal terrorists. Witness the media feeding frezy when a bunch of Greenpeacies were arrested for illegally boarding a ship last year.

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    2. Re:Terrorists by Profane+MuthaFucka · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      This guy thinks I'm Stile. And then he types for 10 minutes and hits submit.

      Obviously, he's been eating too much of my spunk. The heavy nutrition is too much for his system.

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    3. Re:Terrorists by Profane+MuthaFucka · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Actually, it makes me feel better to drill a hole in a skull and fuck it. But blame is OK too.

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  2. Re:Terrorists. by Greyfox · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    It's easy to say you should stand up to them when it's not your house being fire bombed. The authorities can't protect you from terrorists if you're a target so if you want to stand up to them you have to commit yourself and your family to being injured or killed. You can buy a gun for self defense if you want but then you also have to commit to being willing to kill another human being. And the authorities will still make your life miserable if you shoot someone who was trying to firebomb your house. Those are a lot of commitments to make just so you can figure out how vision works.

    Of course it does mean that the terrorists won, but they often do win such battles.

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  3. Re:With the war on terrorism... by Raelus · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Informative? Mods must have decided to turn in early.

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