"Our work is not driven by the pleasure of harming an animal..."

In 2006, University of California, Los Angeles, neuroscientist Dario Ringach sent an e-mail to several animal-rights groups announcing that he would give up his primate research if they would leave him and his family alone. After years of threats and harassment, including masked protestors banging on his windows at night, Ringach shifted his research on the visual system to studies with human volunteers and theoretical work.

After keeping a low profile for a few years, Ringach has recently begun speaking out about the benefits of animal research and against a spate of attacks on researchers at UCLA and elsewhere.

This quote comes from an interview that Ringach did in March 2010 with Science Now magazine, produced by The Americal Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The interview follows a converation between experts with differing views on animal research, which took place at UCLA on Feb 2010

Quote:

"Our work is not driven by the pleasure of harming an animal, nor by greed, but by our honest belief that we're trying to advance medical knowledge and medicine."

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/03/ringach.html

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Research Fields: Medical technologies(yes - 1 items)

Source: Science Now (required)
Countries: United States of America(yes - 1 items)

Animals Used: Primates(yes - 1 items)

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Medical Applications: Medicine, Basic research(yes - 2 items)