J.B.Suconik

Vivisection
The practice of subjecting live animals to cutting operations and torturous procedures, with
and without anesthesia.

September - Section 1
That every failure may be a step to success, may account in some cryptic way for the unabated opposition to the brutal abuse of animals by venerable science. The defense of such use is based on discoveries, which when considered in isolation seem to render a conclusion affirming the efficacy of vivisection. On the other hand, when the discoveries are considered in relation to eclipsed evidence, the conclusion reached is a negation of vivisection. A negation because the argument for vivisection now includes the true premises and germane evidence, the whole of which constitute an inductive fallacy. Fallacy because in logical terms it is an induction with true premises and a false conclusion, false because it fails the “requirement of total evidence.” ¹ Thus hope and expectations of progress of medicine is based on a mere excerpt from the whole story entailing true premises and the false conclusion that vivisection is an effective method apropos of the need. Those to whom… Continue reading