“I was bayed at. Several hundred people were shouting. Some called out “Nazi!”, “bastard!” and “Why don’t you roll over and die!” I was shouted down. It was utterly terrifying.”
How anti-vivisectionists reacted to Mike Robbins at a debate on the proposed animal research centre in Oxford, UK, when he tried to explain how animal research had helped treatments for his Parkinson’s disease (The Observer, London, 15 May)
“To be scooped by prostitutes is humbling.”
Roger Short of the Royal Women’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia, on finding that prostitutes in Nigeria are using “citric douches”. Short is launching an international fund to finance trials to…
