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

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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Re:It shows how powerful misinformation is

[Anonymous Coward]

Because it's not a person, and people are more important than monkeys?

Re:It shows how powerful misinformation is

[easyTree]

How is it reasonable to expect to be able to torture living things which have no hope of escape / reasoning with their captors whilst simultaneously being too much of a bitch to be able to defend what you do... VERBALLY ffs. The neighbours aren't going to break into their homes, tie them to a gurney, peel back their eyelids and start dripping chemicals into their eyes, are they?