PETA Hero Pete Singer Coming to Senses?

Who's Pete Singer?

Peter Singer’s 1975 book Animal Liberation has frequently been called “the bible of the animal rights movement” and its publisher calls the work “the book that started a revolution.”

And why should you care?

According to an account of the documentary in The Times of London, which Singer has not disputed, Singer is shown in an exchange with Tipu Aziz, an Oxford neurosurgeon who has developed new treatments for Parkinson’s disease, in part by giving Parkinson’s to non-human primates for experiments. Aziz tells Singer that about 40,000 people have probably been helped by the research, and that about 100 monkeys were used to develop the treatment.

Singer then tells Aziz: “Well, I think if you put a case like that, clearly I would have to agree that was a justifiable experiment.” Singer then goes on to say that as long as “there was no other way of discovering this knowledge,” he could “see that as justifiable research.”

More here from Inside Higher Ed. (Singer is a professor of bioethics at Princeton University.) More here from The Independent. His former brethren attack and disown Singer here.