Politically Incorrect's Bill Maher Speaks Out Against University Dog Labs

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March 1, 2000

 

Politically Incorrect's Bill Maher Speaks Out Against University Dog Labs

 

Washington, D.C.—Talk show host Bill Maher speaks out against the use of live

animal laboratories at medical schools in a radio ad debuting this morning on

Denver's KTCL-FM. The ad begins:

 

" Hi, this is Bill Maher of Politically Incorrect asking you not to let your

medical or science education go to the dogs… or rabbits, rats, or other animals,

for that matter. There are great new ways to learn that don't involve animals at

all. More than half of all North American medical schools have dropped animal

labs from their curricula. "

 

The ad is part of a public awareness campaign encouraging students at the

University of Colorado School of Medicine to opt out of the dog lab scheduled at

their school for Friday 10 March. The campaign is being coordinated by the

Washington, D.C.-based Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) and

the Denver-based Rocky Mountain Animal Defense (RMAD).

 

More than half of the 126 medical schools in the United States, including such

prestigious schools as Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, and Johns Hopkins, have all

realized that animal labs are no longer necessary to teach physiology and have

eliminated them from their curricula. Instead, they employ CD-ROMS, interactive

computer programs, and life-like simulators. Harvard medical students observe

actual human heart bypass surgery, right alongside the surgeons in the operating

room. But the University of Colorado hasn't yet given up its dog labs.

 

Thirty-one of the 130 first-year medical students at CU have already opted out

of the 10 March lab. PCRM and RMAD organizers hope that by the end of a week of

advertising, leafleting, and lectures on alternatives, additional medical

students will opt out of the lab. PCRM and RMAD want University of Colorado

medical students to know they have every right to choose not to kill their very

first patients.

 

As Bill Maher says in the ad: " The first life you save might just lick you on

the face. "

 

Copies of the radio ad, footage of alternatives to live animal labs, and

interviews with PCRM doctors are all available by contacting Marya Annette

McQuirter, PCRM's communications coordinator, at 202-686-2210, ext. 304, or via

e-mail mmcquirter

 

http://www.pcrm.org/news/issues000301.html

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