Dr. Rosenbaum is interviewed...
Lucy Stringer is the teenage star investigative journalist
of Frailty, a (fictional) quality online magazine. The target readership is: well-educated (affluent) teenage girls.
Dr. Rosenbaum is a middle-aged primatologist. He conducts controversial experiments such as the one, inspired by the infinite monkey theorem, in which he put three
chimpanzees in a cage for an indefinite period with three typewriters to see if they could (be taught to) write a coherent text. He is highly respected by his colleagues. He thinks that people do not understand the purpose of his experiments; that is why he has agreed to be interviewed. He is a little condescending, but earnest in his explanations.
Lucy interviews Dr. Rosenbaum. Her aim is to
publish the interview in Frailty in
order to make her readers aware of the issues surrounding animal experimentation.
The questions Lucy puts to Dr. Rosenbaum include:
- What kinds of scientific experiments involve animals?
- Do animals suffer during experiments?
- Are these experiments really necessary?
- Should scientists be allowed to do whatever they please in the name of Science?
- Do scientists have to ask permission before carrying out their experiments?
- What are you trying to prove with your three-monkeys experiment?
- Can nurture overcome nature?
- Can primates learn human language and, if yes, would it make them more human (and is that a good thing)?
- Does language define being human?
- Can chimpanzees tell right from wrong?
- Are humans superior to animals?
- What rights, if any, should animals have?
- Should zoos be closed?
- Should circuses stop exploiting animals?
- Should the readers of Frailty magazine join PETA?
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