Neuroscientist Halts Research to Stop Extremists

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Posted by Zonk on Saturday August 26, 2006 @09:31PM from the everybody-loses dept.

FleaPlus writes "UCLA neuroscience professor Dario Ringach, known for his contributions to our understanding of how the visual system processes information, has been forced to give up his experiments by the actions of animal-rights extremists. Although he and his family had endured harassment and vandalization by animal-rights activists for years, Ringach reconsidered after extremists tried to firebomb a colleague's home and accidentally left their Molotov cocktail on an elderly neighbor's doorstep. Ringach sent an email to animal activist groups saying, 'You win... please don't bother my family anymore.'"

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Re:Morons (Score:5, Funny)

by Ph33r th3 g(O)at ( 592622 ) writes: on Saturday August 26, 2006 @09:37PM (#15986988)

That would be too good. Better would be to use them for the experimentation that they deem unfit for animals. Everybody wins!

Re:crude explosive (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Saturday August 26, 2006 @09:43PM (#15987034)

Not that I actually have done this.

Everytime I read a story like this... (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Saturday August 26, 2006 @09:48PM (#15987064)

...I am going to torture 25 monkeys to death. Just for fun. Not for science, just good old fashioned fun.

Re:Morons (Score:2, Funny)

by Ph33r th3 g(O)at ( 592622 ) writes: on Saturday August 26, 2006 @09:51PM (#15987080)

And the good news is that bullets can be made with no animal by-products.

Re:With the war on terrorism... (Score:2, Funny)

by Lord Prox ( 521892 ) writes: on Saturday August 26, 2006 @09:55PM (#15987106) Homepage

Damn it. I mis-read the title as "Neuroscientists Reasearch Halts Extremeists" I was thinking they found the fundimentalist nut-job gene sequence and could correct it and remove it from the gene pool.
Ah well. Mabey next week. Where is Craig Venter and Celera Genomics when ya need em.

Place a curse on the RIAA/MPAA today [i-curse.com]

Re:"animal" rights? (Score:5, Funny)

by Feyr ( 449684 ) writes: on Saturday August 26, 2006 @09:58PM (#15987124) Journal

Four legs good! Two legs bad!

Re:"animal" rights? (Score:3, Funny)

by MarkRose ( 820682 ) writes: on Saturday August 26, 2006 @10:04PM (#15987163) Homepage

I like my wings barbecued!

Re:"animal" rights? (Score:5, Funny)

by Snarfangel ( 203258 ) writes: on Saturday August 26, 2006 @10:05PM (#15987170) Homepage

Four legs good! Two legs bad!

Third leg popular!

Re:crude explosive (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Saturday August 26, 2006 @10:14PM (#15987219)

*takes notes*

So THATS how it's done!

Thank you,
-PETA

Re:Devil's advocate (Score:5, Funny)

by remembertomorrow ( 959064 ) writes: on Saturday August 26, 2006 @10:17PM (#15987238)

I wonder if monkey tastes good... watching those videos while hungry was probably not a good idea.

*heads to local zoo*

Re:Activitists (Score:5, Funny)

by dfenstrate ( 202098 ) writes: <dfenstrate@gmaiEULERl.com minus math_god> on Saturday August 26, 2006 @10:18PM (#15987241)

Time between when the story was posted by the editors and someone blames bush.... 19 minutes.

Is that a new record?

I'll show them (Score:4, Funny)

by osgeek ( 239988 ) writes: on Saturday August 26, 2006 @10:20PM (#15987252) Homepage Journal

I'm going hunting tomorrow morning. I don't care for what. I'll just take my twenty gauge and a couple of boxes of shells; go out into the woods near my house; and start the massacre.

And in the afternoon?

Fishing with dynamite, baby.

You animal rights terrorists may have won a round against the researcher, but I am a one-man animal sadist terrorist cell... and I've now been activated.

Re:Morons (Score:3, Funny)

by Feanturi ( 99866 ) writes: on Saturday August 26, 2006 @10:45PM (#15987375)

Might I add, your method of killing people is quite similar to how it is done in fascist states. This would not go unnoticed by the general public, and would likely lead to some form of civil unrest.

When I run into this problem I just click on a few of the people and turn them into Elvis. Problem solved.

Re:they like animals so much (Score:1, Funny)

by darth_linux ( 778182 ) writes: on Saturday August 26, 2006 @10:50PM (#15987398) Homepage

if God didn't want us to eat animals, He wouldn't have made them out of meat.

Re:With the war on terrorism... (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Saturday August 26, 2006 @10:52PM (#15987414)

Penn & Teller - Bullshit! PETA episode. Highly related.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-756280091 0863882593&q=bullshit+peta [google.com]

Buy the DVDs.

Re:This is me, not being a hypocrite. (Score:3, Funny)

by SirSlud ( 67381 ) writes: on Saturday August 26, 2006 @11:06PM (#15987487) Homepage

Shit dude, you should move to Burma. I hear people kill other people all the time in defence of their personal property. It'd be your wet dream!

Re:Fascism by any other name is still fascism (Score:3, Funny)

by spicate ( 667270 ) writes: on Saturday August 26, 2006 @11:09PM (#15987502)

Because there are a lot of Christians like me who wouldn't hesitate to shoot those violent fucks if we caught them in the act. Why? Our religion teaches that preserving life is a duty of all Jews and Christians.

Is this supposed to be a joke?

Re:Everytime I read a story like this... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Saturday August 26, 2006 @11:23PM (#15987569)

yeah! that'll show them! i'll do my part by killing kittens! lots and lots of kittens!
hmmm... did i just say that?!

Re:With the war on terrorism... (Score:3, Funny)

by pallmall1 ( 882819 ) writes: on Sunday August 27, 2006 @12:11AM (#15987817)

According to the Powers-That-Were yes, they were.

Yeah, but those guys weren't taking their orders from squeeky the rabbit. :)

Re:Activitists (Score:2, Funny)

by tOaOMiB ( 847361 ) writes: on Sunday August 27, 2006 @01:31AM (#15988152)

You do mean a record in that it took so long, right?

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Everytime I read a story like this... (Score:5, Funny)

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Re:"animal" rights? (Score:5, Funny)

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Re:Devil's advocate (Score:5, Funny)

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I'll show them (Score:4, Funny)

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Re:they like animals so much (Score:1, Funny)

Re:With the war on terrorism... (Score:2, Funny)

Re:This is me, not being a hypocrite. (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Fascism by any other name is still fascism (Score:3, Funny)

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