Robert Bass, Ph.D.
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Articles by Robert Bass, Ph.D.
January 03, 2007
Pat Robertson has just announced to his television audience that there will be a major terrorist attack on the U.S. sometime late in 2007. Major cities and possibly millions of people will be affected. The attack may be nuclear.
How does he know? Has he been in touch with the Al Qaeda high comman...
December 19, 2006
Consider these items:
- South Dakota's representative in Congress, Stephanie Herseth, urges prayer for Senator Johnson. Harry Reid says his prayers are with the Senator and his family. We all understand the benevolence and concern this represents. Johnson or his family could hardly graciously obj...
May 08, 2006
You do not settle if an experiment is justified or not by merely showing it is of some use. The distinction is not between useful and useless experiments, but between barbourous and civilized behavior. Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expence of ...
November 20, 2005
The job of a teacher is to lead children -- and adults -- out of the slavery of ignorance. If you had been lucky enough to have a teacher, you'd know that. The job of a teacher is to induce you to rise above your appetites and your passions and your prejudices and your fears and your feelings and to...
October 15, 2005
Biomedical industry lobbyist Frankie Trull has once again been touting "the essential need for animals in medical research." Repeatedly, she tells us that animal testing was important or necessary for this or that medical discovery. She never mentions the failures of animal-modeled research - for ex...
October 10, 2005
If you look at a photographic negative, the colors are reversed, nothing seems quite as it should, and the image may be unrecognizable. Once you see the picture developed, you recognize the face of your best friend.
That’s a bit like a common impression of vegans. We don’t eat dead animals. Or t...