Here are the ten biggest lies vivisectors tell:
Lie No 1: Animal Experiments help people.
Truth: No animal experiment ever conducted has ever helped any human patient. Not one human life has ever been saved by vivisection. No animal experiment conducted in the future will help human patients. Proof of this is available in my books. (No vivisector will debate the value of vivisection with me.)
Lie No 2: Drug Companies are forced to perform animal experiments by law.
Truth: They aren't. There are no laws forcing drug companies to conduct animal experiments. Evidence for this is in my book Animal Experiments: Simple Truths.
Lie No 3: Doctors support animal experiments.
Truth: They don't. The majority of doctors want animal experiments stopped. The evidence for this (first published in the European Medical Journal) is included in my books Why Animal Experiments Must Stop and Animal Experiments: Simple Truths.
Lie No 4: Animals who are tortured and killed in animal experiments don't suffer.
Truth: The animals who are used in laboratory experiments suffer enormously. Anyone who doubts this should study the evidence in my books.
Lie No 5: The number of experiments conducted is going down.
Truth: It isn't. The number of experiments on animals is going up.
Lie No 6: There is scientific evidence showing that animal experiments are of value.
Truth: There is no scientific evidence showing that animal experiments are of value. The Department of Health in London was invited by the British House of Lords to submit a list of scientific papers `proving' the value of animal experiments. The House of Lords then asked me to comment on the papers which were submitted. I destroyed the validity of all the submitted papers in my report. (You can read my report in full on this website.)
Lie No 7: Vivisectors claim that their experiments on animals enable drug companies to produce drugs which are safe for human use.
Truth: If an experiment shows that a drug does not cause problems when given to an animal the drug company will claim that this proves that the drug is safe for people. But if an experiment shows that a drug does cause problems when given to an animal the drug company will ignore the results on the grounds that animals are different to people. My book Betrayal of Trust contains a lengthy analysis naming many drugs which are sold for human use despite the fact that they cause serious problems (such as cancer) when given to animals. My book Animal Experiments: Simple Truths contains a summary.
Lie No 8: Vivisectors insist that some experiments on animals produce useful results.
Truth: Vivisectors admit that they don't know which experiments could be of value and might be relevant and not misleading. If you do ten experiments and five might be useful and five are utterly useless then ALL are utterly useless because you don't know which five results are useable and which five aren't. This is one of the major flaws of vivisection. Vivisectors either aren't bright enough to understand this or else they choose to ignore the logic.
Lie No 9: Vivisectors claim that animals are not sentient.
Truth: There is ample evidence that this is a lie in my books such as Animal Rights: Human Wrongs.
Lie No 10: Laboratory animals are well looked after.
Truth: Animals in vivisection laboratories are kept in tiny cages (the sizes of `approved' animal cages are given in my book Animal Experiments:Simple Truths). Three quarters of all animal experiments are performed without any anaesthetic.
Conclusion: Vivisection is a destructive pseudo-science. Animal experiments are performed by psychopaths. The sole reason for vivisection is money. Anyone who supports vivisection is a liar or a fool. Or both.
Several of Vernon Coleman's book on animal experimentation are available free on this website for downloading. All Vernon Coleman's books are available from the shop on this website. Bulk copies of Animal Experiments: Simple Truths are available at special prices from Publishing House, Trinity Place, Barnstaple, Devon EX32 9HG, England.
Copyright Vernon Coleman December 2006
Damn straight!!! Damn lies!!!!
Too many people believe them too!
Please view this non-graphic 2 minute video to see why animal testing is outdated and unreliable:
Dr Vernon Coleman's Challenge To Vivisectors
In 2000 Vernon Coleman offered - on his website and in his Sunday People column - an upgraded �,000 challenge to vivisectors after his offer of �,000 was not taken up. To gain this sum, a vivisector had to send indisputable clinical evidence which convinced Dr Coleman that all animal experiments are relevant, reliable, effective and essential for human health. Vivisectors all over the country had been asked to meet Dr Coleman's challenge, but none responded to the first challenge. None responded to the offer of �,000 either.
So Dr Coleman challenged vivisectors to produce one patient (just one) whose life they can prove has been saved as a direct result of animal experiments - and whom they can prove would now be dead if it had not been for animal experiments. The deadline to meet the challenge was generous - 30 June 2001. Not one vivisector responded. They failed to prove their point. Silence reigned.
Vivisectors can no longer pretend that vivisection is of any use whatsoever. Vivisection is a cruel fraud - done solely to boost drug company profits - and has nothing whatsoever to do with people or health.
Dr Vernon Coleman's excellent websites are: Vernon Coleman and Antivivisection
Mr .Cat above,you are the most qualified to give an opinion on vivisection !
Vernon Coleman is my hero.He`s 100 % right and I`m happy to see the people in this group are so much against vivisection...May all vivisectors be sent to hell and may all the experiments they carried out on defenceless animals be carried out on them for Eternity...!!!
The Vernon Thread was very informative. I just read it!
It's so nice to meet such a well read bunch of peeps........
I would like to re-post this list at another animal group. Okay?
Kristi K
I thought whatever came out of their mouths was a lie?????
Big Gorilly Hugs
