Best Way To Test Products For People?

This appeared in Saturday's Hartford Courant:

The issue of whether laboratory animals should be used in medical research surfaced in recent months when an animal activist led a small protest of Hartford Hospital's practice of stabbing live, anesthetized pigs and repairing the damage during a hospital training course. Previously, the same animal activist, Justin Goodman, launched a campaign to stop brain research on monkeys at the UConn Health Center. William Loftus, an instructor in neuroscience, was one of the researchers at the UConn Health Center lab that experimented on the monkeys.

More...