Laboratory animals play a crucial role in biomedical research – indeed many advances now incorporated into human health care would have been impossible without them. Informed and well-trained scientists have the privilege, but not the automatic right, to use animals as experimental subjects. This privilege must not be abused.
Ushma Savla
Submitter: Arieh Bomzon | bomzon@tx.technion.ac.il
Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Technion - IIT, Haifa, Israel
Published November 17, 2003
Dear Dr. Savla:
"A small step in the protection of laboratory animals but a huge leap for the integrity of animal-based science and researchers"
Given that animal-based researchers still have the privilege of self- policing in the face of increased demands for public accountibility, I commend you and the editorial board of the Journal of Clinical Investigation for the brave and pioneering step in issuing a retraction of a paper where the use of animals that had not been approved by the institutional animal care and use committee.