Dr Vernon Coleman's Challenge To Vivisectors
I can prove that animal experiments are useless.
Animal experiments are only performed because they boost drug industry profits.
Some time ago I offered £100,000 to the first person who could send indisputable clinical evidence to convince me that all animal experiments are relevant, reliable, effective and essential for human health.
Not one vivisection supporter has even tried to claim the money.
I'm now increasing the value of my challenge to £250,000.
Perhaps the doubters will now recognise that I must be right. Animal experiments are worthless.
Dr Vernon Coleman's Summer 2001 Challenge To Vivisectors (dated 15.5.01)
My £250,000 challenge to vivisectors has been a disaster.
Some time ago I offered £100,000 to the first person who could send indisputable clinical evidence which convinced me that all animal experiments are relevant, reliable, effective and essential for human health.
Anti-vivisectionists all over the country wrote to tell me that they had asked vivisectors to try to accept this challenge.
They had no success.
Last week I raised the value of my challenge to £250,000.
But the vivisectors didn't respond to that either.
So I have withdrawn the £250,000 challenge and am offering a new one.
My new challenge is much simpler and much more straightforward.
I challenge 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.
That surely is simple enough.
Vivisectors and their supporters are constantly claiming that they have to keep torturing and killing animals to save human lives.
So here is a chance for them to prove their point.
If they meet the challenge successfully, those of us who oppose vivisection will, in the future, have to rely on moral and ethical arguments.
But if the vivisectors cannot meet this challenge they will have lost any remaining credibility.
I invite anti-vivisectionists everywhere to publicise this challenge and to deliver it to vivisectors, laboratories and companies such as Huntingdon Life Sciences.
If the vivisectors can't meet this simple challenge by June 30th 2001 the rest of us will know that vivisection is a cruel fraud - done solely to boost drug company profits - and has nothing whatsoever to do with people or health.
Vernon Coleman's Challenge To Vivisectors - The Final Outcome
It's now official: vivisection is a barbaric waste of time - of no use whatsoever.
I issued a simple but crucial challenge to vivisectors in my Sunday People column and on this website.
The challenge was widely publicised and was very simple.
I asked vivisectors - and those who support vivisection - to find ONE patient whose life had been saved as a direct result of animal experiments.
I gave a deadline of June 30 - which gave the vivisectors two months - to find one patient.
They failed.
Despite a desperate search, vivisectors and their supporters failed to find one patient whose life has been saved.
I am not in the bit surprised.
But this truly must be the end of the vivisectors' wicked pretence that what they do is of value to medicine, doctors and patients.
For years, vivisectors have claimed that they torture and kill animals to save human lives.
For years they have claimed that they want to debate the issue on scientific grounds.
This was their big chance to prove their point.
When I issued the challenge I told vivisectors that if they met the challenge successfully those of us who oppose vivisection would, in future, have to rely on moral and ethical arguments.
But I also pointed out that if vivisectors could not meet this challenge they would lose any remaining credibility.
Well, they've lost. And the anti-vivisectionists have won.
This is a complete humiliation for vivisectors.
The argument is now officially over.
It is now official that vivisection is a cruel fraud - done solely for money and kudos.
Vivisection has nothing whatsoever to do with people or health.
Remember that the next time you hear a scientist claiming that vivisection helps people.
Please visit Dr Vernon Coleman's excellent websites:-
www.vernoncoleman.com & www.antivivisection.co.uk
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