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...Barger believes further controls will inhibit creative research. "One cannot advance science by dictation," he said. While, as Barger points out, "in any society there are going to be one or two culprits," the animal activists look at any single case of apparent animal abuse as proof that more controls are needed...
...research bills pending before Congress, including the well-supported Research Modernization Act, Harvard researchers seem most concerned by activity at the state level to restrict the use of pound animals. "Most of the concern seems to be with dogs and particularly so-called pound animals," said Dr. A. Clifford Barger, Pfeiffer Professor of Physiology...
...Barger, who as chairman of the Med School's animal committee in 1957 helped write the pound bill, uses dogs for his research on hypertension, which he says afflicts between 30 40 million Americans and can lead to heart failure, renal failure and strokes. He simulates renal-vascular hypertension in dogs by means of a surgically implanted cuff that puts pressure on the renal artery...
While most of the dogs are sacrificed during or after the research, Barger claims they are well treated and are saved from certain death at the pounds. He said the "so-called humane society" puts to death 30,000 dogs in Massachusetts each year. "We extend their lives," he added...
Harvard researchers are concerned also with federal legislation that would amend the federal Animal Welfare Act to define pain more broadly. "The notion that everything is painful is an erroneous concept," Barger said. "If the animals suffer we can't do the experiments...