精品文档---下载后可任意编辑新视野三版 读写 B2 U8 Text AAnimals or children — A scientist's choice1 I am the enemy! I am one of those cursed, cruel physician scientists involvedin animal research. These rumors sting, for I have never thought of myself asan evil person. I became a children's doctor because of my love for childrenand my supreme desire to keep them healthy. During medical schooland residency, I saw many children die of cancer and bloodshed from injury —circumstances against which medicine has made great progress but stil has along way to go. More importantly, I also saw children healthy thanks toadvances in medical science such as infant breathing support, powerful newmedicines andsurgical techniques andtheentire fieldof organ transplantation. My desire to tip the scales in favor of healthy, happychildren drew me to medical research.*2My accusers have twisted the truth into a fable and cast me asthe devil. They claim that I have no moral compass, that I torture innocentanimals for the sole purpose of career advancement, and that my experimentshave no relevance to , an uncaring public barely watches,convinced thattheissuehasnosignificance,andpublicity-conscious senators and politicians increasingly give way tothe lobbying of animal rights activists.3 We, in medical research, have also been unbelievably uncaring. We have1精品文档---下载后可任意编辑al owed the most extreme animal rights protesters to creep in and frame theissue as one of "animal fraud" and hatred. We have persisted in our belief thata knowledgeable public would consent to the importance of animal researchfor public health. Perhaps we have been mistaken in not responding to theemotional tone of the argument. Perhaps we should have res...
