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On Different Results of Direct Action

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research) rally in defense of his community (he considers himself a proxy for the entire UCLA community). Of course, Mantle says, "but though they are high-level mammals, they're not humans." Finally, the core question: Why do these "researchers" continue to use animals when there are alternatives and personal threats?

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

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Beloved family pet Dalmatian, Pepper, is stolen, and after several weeks of searching is discovered to have been experimented on at a hospital and died on the table when researchers tried to implant her with an experimental cardiac pacemaker. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans.