From Andre Menache
Your editorial sounded more like a partisan political statement than an informed opinion. You ignored the fact that the majority of people who oppose animal experiments are law-abiding citizens and chose instead to highlight the activities of a few extremists. In fairness to the many who have been protesting peacefully for decades, you could have suggested that the time is now ripe for a public inquiry into the questionable efficacy of animal experiments. Regarding drug testing, the bitter truth is that preclinical animal data is an incredibly poor predictor of human adverse drug reactions. We need to use healthy human volunteers for drug trials.
Tonbridge, Kent, UK
