Common Sense and Nonsense
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چکیده
The irrepressible Bernard E. Rollin has written a lively, provocative, and scholarly book on several pivotal bioethical issues in nonhuman animal research. Professor Rollin of Colorado State University asksand answers whether nonhuman animals think, feel, and suffer. Rollin asks whether the prevailing scientific justification for banning nonhuman animals is based on rational assessment of the issues or is simply ideological blindness. He offers a rousing and contemptuous "yes" to the latter view. Jane Goodall, in the book's forward, notes thatscientific ideology [likeall ideology, including philosophical ideology] is susceptible to social, political, and economic pressures. Rollin pleads for integrating
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