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Animal Rights Group Targets NIH Director's Home (sciencemag.org)

Posted by timothy on from the where-do-you-stand dept.

sciencehabit writes: Late last month, hundreds of people in two Washington, D.C., suburbs received a letter in the mail claiming that one of their neighbors was tied to animal abuse at a government lab. Science has learned that the letters, sent by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), targeted U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins and NIH researcher Stephen Suomi, revealing their home addresses and phone numbers and urging their neighbors to call and visit them. The tactic is the latest attempt by the animal rights group to shut down monkey behavioral experiments at Suomi's Poolesville, Maryland, laboratory, and critics say it crosses the line.

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  1. Goose meet gander by fred911 · · Score: 4, Informative

    PETA President's home address
    Ingrid Newkirk
    40 Rader St Apt 407
    Norfolk, VA 23510

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  2. Re:It shows how powerful misinformation is by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 3, Informative

    If more than one person treats an animal badly, then it is proper English to say that "people treat animals badly"

    It might be "proper English," (as are many misleading statements) but it's disingenuous because "people" would usually be taken to mean humanity as a whole in that context, rather than "more than one person."

    People, on the whole, or even on average, do not treat animals badly*.

    *which is subjective, anyway.

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  3. Re:It shows how powerful misinformation is by rahvin112 · · Score: 4, Informative

    And the irony is that PETA puts down dogs that could otherwise adopted because the head of Peta doesn't believe in pets.