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10658 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April, 7, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS CLAUDE BERNARD SCIENCE JOUR­ United States will accept for publication any for understanding. I am sick of the total ir­ NALISM AWARDS manuscript containing data derived from rationality of the campus "rebel," whose animal experiments if the editors have reason bearded visage, dirty hair, body odor and to believe, or even suspect, that the animals "tactics" are childish but brutal, naive but: HON. PAUL J. FANNIN in question were mishandled in any way. dangerous, and the essence of arrogant tyr­ OF ARIZONA Further, Morse, had he Wished to do so, anny-the tyranny of spoiled brats. could have discovered that positively no fed­ IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES eral research grants are awarded to any scien­ SOFT TOUCH Tuesday, April 7, 1970 tist or institution Without an on-site inspec­ I am terribly disturbed that I may be in­ tion of laboratory and animal facilities and cubating more of the same. Our household Mr. FANNIN. Mr. President, the Na­ methods, plus a careful screening of the is permissive, our approach to discipline is tional Society for Medical Research has scientists themselves. an apology and a retreat from standards­ honored an Arizona writer for "respon­ Federal laws governing animal research are usually accompanied by a gift in cash or sible science reporting which has made extremely rigid and detailed, and are strictly kind. a significant contribution to public un­ enforced. It's time to call a halt; time to live in an Another indication of the author's lack of adult world where we belong and time to derstanding of basic research in the life scientific knowledge is shown in his sugges­ put these people in their places. We owe the sciences, including medicine." tion that scientists use tissue cultures in­ "younger generation" what all "older gen­ Mr. Julian DeVries of the Arizona Re­ stead of live animals in their experiments. erations" have owed younger generations-­ public received an award for his medical Tissue cultures, of course, have their place in love, protection to a point, and respect when column entitled, "New Book's Claims to the laboratory, but they cannot by any they deserve it. Science Invalid." stretch of the imagination substitute for the We do not owe them our souls, our pri­ His work was judged by a distinguished living animal itself. vacy, our whole lives, and above all, we do Antivivisectionism, the case Morse's book not owe them immunity from our mistakes, panel of judges from the medical and pleads, may have been a valid cause in the or their own. medical-journalism world. A spokesman experimental era before the turn of the cen­ Every generation makes mistakes, always for the society congratulated all the tury, but today modern methods and laws has and always will. We have made our share. award winners on the high caliber of sci­ have rendered it obsolete. But my generation has made America the ence writing evident in their work. most affluent country on earth; it has tackled Mr. President, I ask unanimous con­ head-on, a. racial problem which no nation sent that the article be printed in the on earth in the history of mankind had dared REBELLION, SURE-TO SLAP DOWN to do. Extensions of Remarks. It has publicly declared war on poverty There being no objection the article THE SLOBS and it has gone to the moon; it has deseg­ was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, regated schools and abolished polio; it has as follows: HON. RICHARD L. ROUDEBUSH presided over the beginning of what ls prob­ MEDICAL SPOTLIGHT: NEW BOOK'S CLAIMS TO ably the greatest social and economic rev­ OF INDIANA SCIENCE INVALID olution in man's history. (By Julian DeVries) IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES It has begun these things, not finished Tuesday, April 7, 1970 them. It has declared itself, and committed A book entitled "Ordeal of the Animals," itself, and taxed itself and damn near run by Mel Morse has been published by Prentice­ Mr. ROUDEBUSH. Mr. Speaker, Don­ itself into the ground in the cause of social Hall of Englewood Cliffs, N.J. The 212-page, ald Johnson, the Administrator for the justice and reform. indexed volume sells for $5.95. Its mistakes are fewer than my father's The blurb on the back of the dust jacket Veterans' Administration, has brought to generation---or his father's, or his. Its great­ states in part: "Mr. Morse has carefully dis­ my attention an outstanding article est mistake is not Vietnam; it is the abdica­ criminated between valid and invalid experi­ published March 22, 1970, in the Cedar tion of its first responsibility, its pusillani­ mentation methods ..." Rapids, Iowa, Gazette. mous capitulation to its youth, and its sick The writer of the blurb and the author of I found this article by Prof. K. Ross preoccupation with the problems, the mind, the book should have synchTonized their Toole one of the most enlightening and the psyche, the raison d'etre of the young. typewriters on that one. A reading of the commonsense observations of the con­ Since when have children ruled this coun­ book will show that the only discrimination try? By virtue of what is right, by what ac­ exhibited by the author is against scientific temporary scene that has come to my at­ tention in recent months. complishment should thousands of teen­ research. agers, wet behind the ears and utterly with­ Morse's allegations regarding the use of I commend the following article to all out the benefit of having lived long enough animals in medical research are Without Members of Congress: to have either judgment or wisdom, became foundation, as anyone who would take the REBELLION, SURE-TO SLAP DOWN THE SLOBS the sages of our time? trouble to check could establish. The psychologists, the educators and For example, the author writes that most (By K. Ross Toole) (NOTE.-The author 1s a faculty member preachers say the young are rebelling against animals used in re.search a.re stolen pets. This our archaic mores and morals, our material­ 1s untrue. at the University of Montana, holds a Ph.D. from UCLA and formerly was director of the istic approaches to life, our failures in di­ Scientists use especially bred animals of plomacy, our terrible ineptitude in racial known genetic background in their research. Montana Historical Society, director of the Museum of the City of New York, director o:t matters, our narrowness as parents, our Randomly chosen animals, such as pets, blindness to the root ills of society. Balder­ stolen or otherwise, make poor-in fa.ct the Museum of New Mexico and a rancher dash. worthless-experimental material. in Montana. His treatise, written originally Also, the book charges that animal experi­ as a letter to a brother, is reprinted from the Society hangs together by the stitching of ments often a.re unnecessarily repeated. Billings Gazette.) many threads. No 18-year-old is simply the Experiments are, in fact, repeated but not I am 49 years old. It took me many years product of his 18 years; he is the product unnecessarily. Checking and rechecking is and considerable anguish to get where I of 3,000 yea.rs of the development of man­ the backbone of scientific method. Research­ am-which isn't much of anyplace except kind-and throughout those years, injus­ ers must be absolutely certain that sought­ exurbia. I was nurtured in depression; I lost tice has existed and been fought; rules have after results Will be uniform always. four years to war; I am invested with sweat; grown outmoded and been changed; doom Further, Morse alleges that animal experi­ I have had one coronary; I am a "liberal" has hung over men and been avoided; un­ ments involving pain a.re carried out Without square and I am a professor. I am sick of the just wars have occurred; pa.in has been the benefit of anesthesia. He charges also that "younger generation," hippies, yippies, mm­ cost of progress-and man has persevered. housing, feeding and postoperative care of tants and nonsense. TOLERANT ex.pe't'imenta.J. animals are grossly cruel and I am a professor of history at the Univer­ As a professor and the father of seven, I inadequate. sity of Montana., and I am supposed to have have watched this new generation and con­ Obviously, Morse has failed to look in on "liaison" with the young. Worse still, I am. cluded that most of them are fine. A minor­ some of the modern experimental labora­ father of seven children. They range in age ity are not--and the trouble iS that minority tories or to check with any of the reputable from seven to 23-and I am fed up with non­ threatens to tyrannize the majority a.nd take scientific Journals or those who write for sense. over. them. I am tired of being blamed, maimed and I dislike that minority; I a.m aghast that Inquiry would have brought forth the fa.ct contrite; I am tired of tolerance and the the majority "takes" it a.nd allows itsell to that no established medical journal in the reaching out (which is always my function) be used. And I ad.dress myself to both the April 7, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 10659 minority and the majority. I speak partly as Knowing this, why do we listen subservi­ is our cam.puses. This does not mean a flood a historian, partly as a father and partly as ently to the violent tacticians of the new of angry edicts, a sudden clamp-down, a one fed up, middle-aged and angry member generation? Either they have total victory "new" policy.

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