PETA Sues NIH for Violating Its “First Amendment Right” to Talk to Monkeys

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There is not one modern medical treatment or intervention that does not involve animal research at some point in the process. Source
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Darwinian Death: Euthanasia Meets Eugenics

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One powerful influence on the early euthanasia movement was eugenics ideology, which emerged first in the 1860s under the leadership of Francis Galton. Source
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