Particularly
damaging to the abolitionist cause are the "animal rights"
organizations - lately much bally-hooed by the Press - which are either
headed by incompetent people, however honest they may be, or they have been
taken over by the industrial interests, or else they have been founded by
the latter outright. They deliberately restrict any discussion about vivisection to
philosophy, thereby concealing the mass of medical evidence that cries out
for a quick demise of vivisection. Only scientific arguments can effect
changes on a political, i.e. practical level.
Thus the problem
that not only the anti-vivisectionists but all of humanity face, if it is to
survive, is how the invisible wall of censorship built up by the evil forces
that rule us can be broken. A way has to be found.
The problem does
not lie so much with these evil forces as with humanity itself, whose
majority tradionally lack the mental faculties to recognize the truth until
it is too late.
As Albert Einstein
put it in a letter he wrote on April 10, 1938 from Princeton to a Rumanian
friend, Maurice Solovine: "A fashion determines each age, with most
people unable to see the tyrants that rule them."
A perusal of the multitude of medical opinions - merely samples of a much larger collection - presented in this book might seem encouraging to anti-vivisectionists, insofar as it shows them that the number of experts who consider vivisection not merely useless but dangerously misleading, and therefore to be abolished, is much greater than they expected; on the other hand it could also be discouraging, because it shows that whatever is being said today has been said before; all the dire predictions that were made over the last century by the really competent, honest and courageous doctors, such as the famed Hadwen of Gloucester, have meanwhile come tragically true, whereas all the extravagant promises made by the laboratory barkers, the venal "science" magazines and the accredited "medical correspondents" have proved to be nothing but flatulent boasts.
Yet there has been no abolition, nor even reduction, of the misleading animal experiments; there hasn't been the slightest improvement, nor even re-appraisal, on an official level. There have only been new tricks devised to keep the public anaesthetized and misinformed through the industry-beholden "health authorities" and the mass media: tricks not designed to halt the proliferation of new and profitable drugs and maladies, but to enhance it.