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"Perhaps they should take the money spent in these sort of studies and use that to install excellent seatbelts of proper design in their cars in place of their current inadequate seatbelts..."
- William R. Wittert, M.D., Pediatrics

"I do not see where the work I have reviewed expands our knowledge of head trauma."
- Richard Sax, M.D., Neurology

"I have to regard the reported research as redundant. It is not representative of real life situations. I seriously doubt that these findings have any clinical relevance to human injuries."
- Roy Selby, M.D., Neurology

"This is one of the most cruel and medically unsound experiments I have ever seen. Cutting away the skull and then directly damaging the anaethetised brain is not representative of the damage that occurs with trauma. One of the biggest problems with brain trauma is that swelling of the tissues of the brain occurs in closed space (the skull) causing damage to the brain tissue. This is not duplicated in the experiment."
- Joan Poster, DVM

"This type of damage is not the same as that seen in... man."
Thomas Gennarelli of the baboon-bashing laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania
in a paper "Controlled Cortical Impact: A New Experimental Brain Injury Model."

The "Hybrid III Dummy"... used by other car manufacturers

Additional Information

• There is no law which requires animals to be used in car-crash tests.
• The world's safest cars rely exclusively on the sophisticated Hybrid III dummies for crash-testing. This dummy is the best indicator of human injury response available.
• The car with the highest standard of safety. Uses dummies exclusively... Mercedes-Benz
• Cars highly-rated on safety. Now use dummies. Audi, Volkswagen, Volvo.
• Firms which never used animals. Mazda, Toyota, Nissan, Isuzu, Hyundai.
• Ford uses mechanical simulation and dummies. Has not used animals in crash-tests since the late 1970s.
• Chrysler "almost exclusively" uses dummies.
• Of the ten worse cars for highest death rates six were General Motors models.
• The four worst cars for highest death rates were General Motors models.

(The above information is from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's "Highest Death Rates", IIHS Status Report, Vol. 26, No. 4, April 13 1991.)
Acknowledgements: PeTA News, Fall 1991.