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Article: So, who honours animal rights? Neuroscientist Colin Blakemore rails at being denied recognition. But behind his research stands the fraught issue of vivisection.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 30, 2003
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Byline: BRIAN SEWELL
COLIN Blakemore, eminent neuroscientist and Professor of Physiology, is much in the news for his omission from any recent Honours list. He huffed, puffed, blamed the Government for betraying him and threatened resignation as head of the Medical Research Council, one of the bodies through which he influences it.
Lord Sainsbury, science minister, then poured rather too thin an oil on this troubled water in a teacup and his reassurances mollified neither Blakemore, nor the civil servants who compile the lists, nor the professor's enemies in the animal-rights fraternity. We now know that honours are primarily given to those adept in ...