Divorce Among the Gulls

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This section, "Pictures at a Scientific Exhibition" is about young college students in the 1960s. They have to conduct laboratory experiments on rats, and other small animals and they have to kill the animals cruelly to do the experiments. The author shows how the students start out squeamish about killing the animals, but by the end of the physiology course, they are immune to the suffering of the animals they kill and maim. He also says that the course did not discover anything new about science, and so really, the animals die

d horribly for nothing. The author thinks that scientific training makes people less compassionate and less caring, and that does not make them any better scientists. In fact, he thinks it makes them less wise and less humane. He thinks that scientists should be more rational and that would make them better scientists. His arguments for his conclusions include his own experience in the science lab, and some of his colleagues' experiences in their labs, where they literally just throw unused animals away in the trash. They do n

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Approximate Word count = 358
Approximate Pages = 1 (250 words per page double spaced)

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