How Animal Rights Activists Try to Twist Public Perceptions
An observant reader directed me to a fascinating article illustrating how some animal rights groups are more than willing to distort reality to serve their cause. The article, Animal Experimentation Is Good!” How Industry Front Organizations Try to Twist Public Perceptions is published on the VegSource.Com web site and is devoted to discussing how medical researchers, pharmaceutical companies and others involved in animal research supposedly distort the truth and try to deceive the public.
Which is interesting, because there is an example of a very sloppy form of animal rights deception within this article itself. If you scroll down to the bottom half of the article, you will see the picture below of three people wearing what appear to be some sort of biochemical protective suits.
The only problem is that this photo is completely fake. The dog has been inserted using Photoshop or some other image editing program. Whoever inserted the job did a very lousy job at it. Below is a blow-up of the right hand of the middle figure which overlaps with the dog’s head. Where we should be able to see a pixilated version of the man’s thumb and rest of his glove, instead we instead see an opaque series of white and light colored pixels that are an artifact of pasting the dog into the picture.
The pixilation around the right side of the dog’s jaw is also a giveaway that this picture has been modified. The odd pixel pattern results when mathematical algorithms are used to blend the colors between the original image and the image which is pasted into it.
Now tell me again who is trying to twist public perceptions by practicing deception?
Source:
Animal Experimentation Is Good!” How Industry Front Organizations Try to Twist Public Perceptions. VegSource.Com, June 4, 2001.
Tags: Jeff Nelson, Medical Research, VegSource.Com