1000 DOCTORS (AND MANY MORE) AGAINST VIVISECTION Edited by Hans Ruesch First published 1989 Ó Hans Ruesch Foundation (...) The Medical Aspect Few words need be wasted on this. An anthology of names and opinions of physicians and researchers who, explicitly or indirectly, have denied any scientific or medical validity to vivisection make up the largest part of this book; so the question can be defined, at least, controversial. But if one considers that all those who assign validity to the animal model system are people who derive a morbid satisfaction or a monetary gain from it, the question appears no longer controversial but understandable. Just a handful of examples: Lawson Tait, the giant of modern surgery (see biography) said: The position of vivisection as a method of scientific research stands alone amongst the infinite variety of roads for the discovery of Natures secrets as being open to strong prima facie objection. No one can urge the slightest ground of objection against the astronomer, the chemist, the electrician, or the geologist in their ways of working; and the great commendation of all other workers is the comparative certainty of their results. But, for the physiologist, working upon a living animal, there are two strong objections: that he is violating a strong and widespread public sentiment, and that he tabulates results of the most uncertain and often quite contradictory kind. And in 1988, Prof. Robert S. Mendelsohn of Chicago University, in his last, syndicated Medical Newsletter, The Peoples Doctor, No. 4, Vol. 12: Despite the tendency of doctors to call modern medicine an inexact science, it is more accurate to say there is practically no science in modern medicine at all. Almost everything doctors do is based on a conjecture, a guess, a clinical impression, a whim, a hope, a wish, an opinion or a belief. In short, everything they do is based on anything but solid scientific evidence. Thus, medicine is not a science at all, but a belief system. Beliefs are held by every religion, including the Religion of Modern Medicine. And the noxious effects of modern medicine, which Prof. Mendelsohn kept denouncing to mass audiences in books, articles, newsletters, conferences and on TV, were mostly attributable to what Prof. Croce defines the false methodology of animal research. See here: - hansruesch.net/articoli/1000_Docs_1.htm Main publications by Hans Ruesch on vivisection - hansruesch.net/publi_ruesch.htm
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