Daily News | PETA virtual experience at Penn equates medical research on animals to human testing. Scientists aren’t sure about the analogy.
Animal rights activists staged a virtual-reality alien abduction on the University of Pennsylvania’s campus on Friday to encourage people to consider the experiences of lab animals.a first-person perspective centered on a story line in which
in the desert. During the experience, participants sat in a reclining chair in the back of a truck as they observed the close encounter. Marnie Chambless, a PETA spokesperson who manned the van at 36th and Walnut Streets with “Abduction” written across the front, noted that participants found the experience an illuminating metaphor for experience of animals in captivity.Paul Offit, Philly’s most vocal vaccine advocate, on science, truth, and why he’s not a fan of the latest COVID boosters
University of Pennsylvania’s animal research is “aimed at finding treatments and cures for some of the most challenging diseases of our time, for both humans and animals,” said Ron Ozio, a university spokesperson.
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