Vivisection
Vivisection, viv'i-sek'shan, n. [< L. vivus, alive, and sectio, sectionis, a cutting.]
The dissection of, or otherwise experimenting on, a living animal, esp. for the purpose of ascertaining or demonstrating some
fact in physiology or pathology. -Websters Dictionary
"Practically speaking, all animal experiments are untenable on a scientific basis, for they possess no statistical validity or reliability whatsoever. They merely perform an alibi function for pharmaceutical companies, who hope to protect themselves thereby (from legal liability)."
From Tierversuch and Tierexperimentator (Vivisection and Vivisector) by Herbert Stiller, M.D. and Margot Stiller, M. D., Hanover, 1976
"We ought not to ridicule the pretensions of the anti-vivisectionists - the sufferings of animals are truly horrible; and sympathy with them is not sentimentality."
Vikenty Veressayev (1867-1945)
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