2015考研英语阅读集中练：animals' rights

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    2015考研英语阅读集中练：animals' rights
   
    To paraphrase 18th-century statesman Edmund Burke, all that is needed for
the triumph of a misguided cause is that good people do nothing. “One such cause
now seeks to end biomedical research because of the theory that animals have
rights ruling out their use in research. Scientists need to respond forcefully
to animal rights advocates, whose arguments are confusing the public and thereby
threatening advances in heath knowledge and care. Leaders of the animal rights
movement target biomedical research because it depends on public funding, and
few people understand the process of health care research. Hearing allegations
of cruelty to animals in research settings, many are perplexed that anyone would
deliberately harm an animal.
    For example, a grandmotherly woman staffing an animal rights booth at a
recent street fair was distributing a brochure that encouraged readers not to
use anything that opposed immunizations; she wanted to know if vaccines come
from animal research. When assured that they do, she replied, “Then I would have
to say yes.” Asked what will happen when epidemics return, she said, “Don’t
worry, scientists will find some way of using computers.” Such well-meaning
people just don’s understand.
    Scientists must communicate their message to the public in a compassionate,
understandable way in human terms, not in the language of molecular biology. We
need to make clear the connection between animal research and a grandmother’s
hip replacement, a father’s bypass operation, a baby’s vaccinations, and even a
pet’s shots. To those who are unaware that animal research was needed to produce
these treatments, as well as new treatments and vaccines, animal research seems
wasteful at best and cruel at worst.
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