ABSTRACT
Certainly there is a prima-facie case to be made for animal experimentation. Any adequate assessment of the scientific, epistemological, and moral appropriateness of animal experimentation cannot ignore this case. Although branding researchers and their public policy advocates as barefaced liars may be rhetorically effective, it is intellectually indefensible. Doubtless advocates on all sides of this debate have exaggerated their respective cases. However, this does not license the inference that researchers (or their opponents, for that matter) have nothing important to say, or that all or most of their claims are false.
