AAP News Vol. 3 No. 3 March 1987, p. 18
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Article too even handed?

Mark M. Ravitch M.D.1

1 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

I write to object to the lead article in the January 1987 AAP News on the animal rights movement. The headline is fine, and the box on page one is fine, but the selected extracts from the positions of the animal rights people are given at long length, and the body of the article appears to give them the same weight as to the positions of the Foundation for Biomedical Research and the medical community at large. It seems to me that it is a mistake for the AAP to adopt a seemingly "even handed" reporting of both sides since, obviously, as in the box on page one, the position of the medical profession, and the facts, are bitterly opposed by the animal rights activist people.