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operations without the animal’s subsequent return to consciousness and per- 
mitting those after which the animal is allowed to live and to suffer post- 
operative pain. I believe it to be poor pedagogy to teach students of impression- 
able age that they have a right to inflict pain on animals for purposes of 
practice in operative techniques to win prestige and prizes. 
I find troubling the extreme attitudes of some of the members of the National 
Society for Medical Research and what I feel to be their misrepresentations 
and lack of scruple. As a minor example, the booth of the society at an annual 
meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science was 
decorated with a large photograph of healthy kittens playing happily in an 
old straw hat against a country background, a picture which seemed to bear 
little relation to laboratory experiments with kittens. I consider its use dis- 
honest. 
After studying these bills carefully (H.R. 1937 and S. 3088) and the state- 
ments of their opponents, I believe that this legislation will not hamper respon- 
sible teaching or research. I also believe most emphatically that the provisions 
of the bills are badly needed. 
Supplementary Statement From the Humane Society of the United States, 
Washington, D.C. 
For the information of the committee and of the House of Representatives, we 
offer supplementary facts about two issues discussed during the hearing. They 
are: 
( 1 ) The effect of the proposed legislation on medical research ; and 
(2) The probable cost of administering H.R. 3556 should it become law. 
One witness appearing in opposition implied that development of the surgical 
technique for saving “blue” babies might have been made impossible had H.R. 
3556 been law at the time. The witness argued that experimenters at Johns 
Hopkins University would have been prevented from progressive development of 
their research work. 
Careful analysis of H.R. 3556 will show that the allegation is unfounded. 
Requests for Federal funds to support such research can easily be drafted 
in a form that will permit development of the research along all reasonable lines. 
What H.R. 3556 aims at controlling, and would control, is the kind of boon- 
doggling and outright fraud of which Dr. Philip Hauge Abelson, editor of Science 
and one of the most respected scientists of the world, was speaking when he 
said (the Saturday Review, Oct. 6, 1962) that today it is “common * * * for 
scientists to ask for money for research which they have no intention of per- 
forming.” 
As testimony before the committee has revealed, many other scientists agree 
with humane societies that science will be advanced, not retarded, by a require- 
ment of integrity. Dr. Abelson told the Saturday Review interviewer that : 
“Heavy financial support from the Federal Government for scientific research 
has attracted to the scientific world many men and women with no adequate 
motivation or intellectual capability to contribute anything important to science.” 
H.R. 3556 is aimed — and aimed accurately — exclusively at those who abuse ani- 
mals and waste money because they are dishonest or because they lack “adequate 
motivation or intellectual capability.” No research and no “blue baby” will 
ever suffer from controls over such misfits and misfeasants. 
As to the cost of administering H.R. 3556 : This law would be not costly but, 
instead, financially profitable. 
The Agency for Laboratory Animal Control would, of course, have access to 
and would make use of information already available to many Government 
agencies but nowhere correlated or studied with the objective of preventing 
duplication, waste, dishonesty, and cruelty. The Agency also would have access 
to electronic and mechanical statistical and data processing equipment already 
owned by the Federal Government. Much of the work of the Agency would be 
done with that equipment. Several committees of the House and of the Senate 
already have urgently recommended just such a program with the objective of 
improving medical research and reducing waste of funds. 
We envision the staff of the Agency for Laboratory Animal Control as con- 
sisting of the Commissioner, an Assistant to the Commissioner, a group of 
statisticians (biometricians), a small group of biological science specialists, a 
