中国大学MOOC:"Unlike the indifferent public and politicians, medical researchers are irritated by the twisted accusations from animal rights activists and decide to take counter-measures.";
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- 1. Politicians are aware of the public responses and are not likely to be influenced by the animal rights activists.
- In the animal rights forum, much is made of the volume of pain these animals experience in the name of medical science. Activists deny that we are trying to help and say it is evidence of our evil and cruel nature.
- Meanwhile, an uncaring public barely watches, convinced that the issue has no significance, and publicity-conscious senators and politicians increasingly give way to the lobbying of animal rights activists.
- The author, a physician engaged in doing animal research, expresses his growing frustration with the animal rights movement and justifies animal research with many reasons including how medical advances benefited from the experiments on animals.
- What is the animal research community trying to do? A: Find new ways to reduce and replace animal testing. B: Further commit themselves to animal research. C: Criticize animal rights activists’ deceptive claims. D: Help companies to save a lot of money and costs.