ABOUT THE COMPULSION OF SCIENTISTS TO PERPETUATE ERROR
How can one explain that for well over a century-and-a-half a great many eminent citizens, including reputable scientists and physicians, physiologists and medical researchers have irrefutably demonstrated the uselessness of animal experimentation as a means of acquiring medical knowledge, and the damage ensuing to human health from this misconception, and yet the majority of "people who count" in politics, public health, education, media, even in animal welfare, and consequently also public opinion, which is influenced by all these institutions, continue to cling to the belief that animal experiments can't be renounced. There is a variety of reasons for this phenomenon, which shall be examined from various viewpoints.