If you tend to find online discussions are ruled by 13 year olds using their chat-room jargon and ready for a fight, you may find a new website, Debatewise, is worth checking out. 

Debatewise hopes to foster intelligent debate, by encouraging collaboration and forming sound arguments.  It will be interesting to see if the debate on animal research stimulates fresh opinions on the matter.

You can sign up (for free) and join in on a debate, create a new one, and vote on the issue - it’s a way to directly communicate with and influence the rest of a community seeking informed discussion.

Debatewise hopes to become a place people go to make their minds up about something - from ID cards, to facebook, to the effects of cannabis. So if you feel passionately about an aspect of animal research, add to the debate!