As some of you know, the chat forum OxfordGossip has a pretty big section devoted to discussion of the Oxford lab and AR.

It can be soul-destroying at times to wade through the endlessly regurgitated, badly-expressed nonsense and general abuse against ‘meat eating savages’ that some of the antivivs/ ARistas post (see OxGoss knocks Bailey off his high horse and Animal Aid shown the door).  Just yesterday I blogged here on the fact that NAVS are still making claims about morphine and penicillin 13 years after they were shown to be untrue.

However, this morning I saw something that brightened up my day and has hopefully set the tone for the weekend: Stop The UK Seatbelt Laws is a new thread that brilliantly parodies all the antiviv/ AR arguments in a mere 3 pages (at last count).  I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

The starting post is a rip-off of a genuine antiviv/ AR post where the words ‘animal testing’ have been substituted for ‘seatbelts’.  It should be hard to believe that someone could wade into a forum where there are several thousands posts on this issues – some of them very intelligently expressed – and for their first post put something so naïve…

Antivivs/ ARistas note how easily your claims are debunked, even through the mode of satire.  If you actually read the rest of the forum section, you’ll see how they are each specifically debunked with individual thoroughness (over and over and over again).