ACCUSATIONS are flying over the British government’s decision on 21 November to sanction the building of a world-class centre for brain research on primates. Backers of the scheme hailed the announcement by the deputy prime minister, John Prescott, as a major gesture of support for research into strokes, Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease. But antivivisectionists are furious, claiming that Prescott has ignored the findings of a public inquiry a year ago into whether or not the centre should be built.
Prime Minister Tony Blair and his science minister, David Sainsbury, have said that building the centre was “in the national…
