士官等级Animals or children? —A scientist's choice
1 I am the enemy! I am one of tho curd, cruel physician scientists involved in animal rearch. The rumors sting, for I have never thought of mylf as an evil person. I became a children's doctor becau of my love for children and my supreme desire to keep them healthy. During medical school and residency, I saw many children die of cancer and bloodshed from injury —circumstances against which medicine has made great progress but still has a long way to go. More importantly, I also saw children healthy thanks to advances in medical science such as infant breathing support, powerful new medicines and surgical techniques and the entire field of organ transplantation. My desire to tip the scales in favor of healthy, happy children drew me to medical rearch.
2 My accurs have twisted the truth into a fable and cast me as the devil. They claim that I have no moral compass, that I torture innocent animals for the sole purpo of career advancement, and that my experiments have no relevance to
medicine. Meanwhile, an uncaring public barely watches, convinced that the issue has no significance, and publicity-conscious nators and politicians increasingly give way to the lobbying of animal rights activists.好吃的菜谱大全
3 We, in medical rearch, have also been unbelievably uncaring. We have allowed the most extreme animal rights protesters to creep in and frame the issue as one of "animal fraud" and hatred. We have persisted in our belief that a knowledgeable public would connt to the importance of animal rearch for public health. Perhaps we have been mistaken in not responding to the emotional tone of the
argument. Perhaps we should have responded to tho sad slogans and posters of animals by waving equally sad posters of children dying of cancer or external wounds. 4 In the animal rights forum, much is made of the volume of pain the 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.
孕妇能吃黑鱼吗A more reasonable argument, however, can be advanced in our defen. Life is often cruel to animals and human beings. Teenagers are flung from trucks and suffer vere head injuries. Young children barely able to walk find themlves at the bottom of swimming pools while a parent is occupied with something el. From everyday germs to gang violence, no life is free of pain. Physicians hoping to relieve the eternal suffering of the tragedies have only three choices: 1) create an animal model of the problem to understand the process and test new therapies; 2) experiment on human beings (some experiments will succeed, most will fail); or 3) leave medical kno
wledge static, hoping that accidental discoveries will lead us forward.
5 Some animal rights activists would suggest an optional fourth choice, claiming that computer models can create animal experiments, thus omitting actual
experiments. Computers can imitate the effects of well-understood principles on complex systems, as in the application of the laws of physics to airplane and automobile design. However, when the principles themlves are in question, as is the ca with the complex biological systems of human life under study, computer modeling alone is of little value.
6 One of the terrifying effects of arresting the u of animals in medical rearch is that the impact will not be felt for years or even decades. Drugs to cure infection will remain undiscovered, surgical and diagnostic techniques will remain undeveloped, and fundamental biological process that might have been understood will remain mysteries. There is the danger that quick decisions by well-meaning politicians will create resolution to diplomatically satisfy the small minority of
loud protesters while the conquences and damaging impact of tho decisions will not be apparent until long after.
鲫鱼汤催奶的做法7 Fortunately, most of us enjoy good health, and the agony of watching one's child die has become
a rare experience. Yet our good fortune should not make us unappreciative. Protection from rious sickness and drugs to combat heart dia, high blood pressure and stroke are all bad on animal rearch. Most complex surgical procedures such as heart or hip surgery and organ transplantation surgeries were initially developed in animals. Techniques to replace defective genes, the cau of so much dia, as well as the development of synthetic organs are prently undergoing animal studies. The studies, and any subquent advances, will effectively end if animal rearch is verely restricted.慈云阁
8 In America today, death has become an event isolated from our daily existence. As a doctor who has watched many children die and en their parents' infinite grief, I am particularly angered by any minute expression of caring for the suffering
防诈骗演讲稿of creatures and so little for sick and dying human beings. People are too protected from the reality of human life and death and what it means.
日本摄影师9 Make no mistake, however. I would never advocate needless cruel treatment of animals. The animal rights movement has made a contribution in making us more aware of animals' needs and the need to arch harder for suitable alternatives. But if the more radical members of this movemen
做饭作文300字t are successful in threatening further rearch, their efforts will bring about a tragedy that will cost many lives. Hence the real question is whether an uncaring majority can be aroud to protect its future against a loud, but misdirected, minority.
