MEMBER BLOG TAG: animal research
| Monday, September 22, 2008 5:59PM | | | | Why I Returned My Columbia Ph.D. | Tags: Holocaust, animals, vivisection, Columbia University, Nazi Germany, animal rights, animal research, Josef Mengele
| | | I'm author of "Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust," now in its third printing and soon to be in 13 languages.
Three years ago--on Tuesday, May 17, 2005, at 11am (the day before the 251st Columbia Commencement)--I returned my doctorate to the Office of Columbia President Lee Bollinger in Low Library, Room 202, to protest my alma mater's mistreatment of animals in its labs.
After writing my 320-page doctoral dissertation on "Social Attitudes of Protestant Journals During the Depression of 1893-97," I had received my Ph.D. with honors from the Department of Religion in 1970.
As a writer of Holocaust reviews and books (Anti-Semitism: The Road to the Holocaust and Beyond; From Buchenwald to Carnegie Hall;... | | | | | |
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