Animals in Medical Research (ELL)

The Research Defence Society (RDS; London, UK), an organization representing doctors and scientists in the debate on the use of animals in research and testing, welcomes the greater openness that the FOI Act brings to discussions about animal research. [...] RDS considers that the use of animals in research can be ethically and morally justified. [...] (The author) supports a healthy and continued debate on the use of animals in research. (The ethics of animal research: Talking Point on the use of animals in scientific research by Simon Festing & Robin Wilkinson; EMBO reports VOL 8 | NO 6 | 2007; pp 526-530)