{"id":11837,"date":"2011-09-06T12:02:24","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T17:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=11837"},"modified":"2011-09-06T12:02:24","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T17:02:24","slug":"animal-research-critic-will-speak-at-brock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2011\/09\/animal-research-critic-will-speak-at-brock\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal research critic will speak at Brock"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11839\" style=\"width: 170px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11839\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11839 \" title=\"Ray Greek\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/raygreek-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ray Greek\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11839\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ray Greek<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A medical doctor and anti-vivisection activist will speak at Brock on Sept. 17.<\/p>\n<p>Ray Greek, a critic of animal research who used to experiment on animals, will speak about animal research at Pond Inlet from 7 to 9 p.m. Greek is president of the California-based not-for-profit <a href=\"http:\/\/afma-curedisease.org\" target=\"_blank\">Americans for Medical Advancement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Greek has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and the Thomas Jefferson University School of Medicine in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>He and his wife Jean Swingle Greek have written three science books on the topic of attempting to extrapolate the results of animal experiments to humans. Those books are <em>Sacred Cows and Golden Geese<\/em>, <em>Specious Science<\/em> and <em>What Will We Do If We Don&#8217;t Experiment on Animals?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>His most recent books include <em>Animal Models in Light of Evolution<\/em>, which is written for people with scientific backgrounds, and <em>FAQs About the Use of Animals in Science<\/em>, which is written for non-scientists.<\/p>\n<p>The event is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by the Department of Sociology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ray Greek is president of the California-based Americans for Medical Advancement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[31,33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11837"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11843,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11837\/revisions\/11843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}