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Tuesday 17 April 2012 Animals
James Panton
Stand up for animal research
The online People’s Petition supporting vivisection is a bold and positive initiative. If only it didn’t offer supporters the option to remain anonymous.

Tuesday 4 April 2006
Stuart Derbyshire
We need more drugs testing - on animals and humans
We mustn't let the disastrous trials at Northwick Park hospital blind us to the need for further medical innovation.

Tuesday 28 March 2006
Josie Appleton
Carry on culling
Why there is so much fuss about Canada's annual seal cull - and why the Canadian government should ignore it.

Thursday 2 March 2006
Brendan O’Neill
Animal research protests: what next?
The demo to defend the half-built Oxford lab was a very good start, but there are bigger beasts to slay than a handful of animal rights cranks.

Friday 24 February 2006
Mick Hume
Animal testing: Qui vive?
Read spiked editor Mick Hume's Notebook in The Times (London).

Thursday 23 February 2006
Josie Appleton
Speciesism: a beastly concept
Why it is morally right to use animals to our ends.

Thursday 23 February 2006
Kristina Cook
Pro-Test: supporting animal testing
A new campaign by Oxford students makes the case for scientific progress and medical research.

Thursday 9 February 2006
Chris Pile
Chimps and humans: what’s in a name?
Whether we classify chimpanzees as pan or homo is a matter for evolutionary biology - not morality.

Thursday 3 November 2005
Helene Guldberg
Man is more than a beast
The primatologist Frans de Waal says we should get in touch with 'our inner ape'. Speak for yourself.

Friday 2 September 2005
Mick Hume
Ape genetics won’t reveal what makes us human
spiked editor Mick Hume's Notebook in The Times (London).

Friday 29 July 2005
Helene Guldberg
Singer on ‘speciesism’: a specious argument
In his new book In Defense of Animals, Peter Singer reduces the value of human life to a tick-list of capabilities.

Monday 14 February 2005
Helene Guldberg
Who will stand up for animal experiments?
We need fewer laws against animal rights activists, and more arguments in defence of vivisection.

Friday 26 November 2004
Helene Guldberg
Stop apologising for animal experiments
We don't need more laws against animal rights activists, but a more robust defence of animal experimentation.

Monday 18 October 2004
Jan Bowman
Cruel to be kind
Making animals suffer is generally a bad thing - unless it's done for the good of humanity.

Wednesday 28 July 2004
Josie Appleton
Science that dare not speak its name
The UK government threatens to defend Oxford's new animal research lab with guns because it can't do it with words.

Wednesday 28 July 2004
Josie Appleton
Science that dare not speak its name
The UK government threatens to defend Oxford's new animal research lab with guns because it can't do it with words.

Friday 23 July 2004
Fiona Mason
Vetting pet owners
Vets care for animals - but they should show respect for people, too.

Friday 16 July 2004
Stuart Derbyshire
Ruining cats and dogs
The UK government's Animal Welfare Bill could turn having a pet into a pain.

Tuesday 1 June 2004
Stuart Derbyshire
Vivisection: Put human welfare first
Scientists who support a new centre for researching alternatives to animal testing have their priorities all wrong.

Tuesday 24 February 2004
Helene Guldberg
Why humans are superior to apes
The fashion for equating chimps with children is based on a degraded view of humanity and an ignorance about animals.

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