Research

He was our partner through thick and thin. With his cute nose and human-like, five-fingered paws, he was easy to recognize as our cousin; while at the same time his beady red eyes made him just alien enough that we could torture him without restraint. We shocked him, drugged him, cut him open. We fattened him, starved him, blinded him, gave him cancer. When we were done with him, we swung him by his tail until his brains were bashed out on the laboratory counter; or, for compassion’s sake, we asphyxiated him in a clean appealing garbage pail with a clear plastic top.

Did anybody ever say “thank you?”

Current research topic: our friend the mouse.