Cats
My dad works for the pharmaceutical industry, whoring himself to the various multinationals. He was pushing one particular drug that inhibits the gastric reflux response ie. it stops you from spewing your guts up.
To really sell it, he had a video clip on his laptop. It featured a frontal shot of cat (ive forgotten the medical reason it had to be a cat) that was clamped to a board. The moggy also had the top half of its skull removed and electrodes wires placed on it's exposed brain. A large syringe full of a white milky substance was pushed into the poor puss's mouth and injected by gloved hands into it's stomach. The reflux centre of the cat's brain is stimulated and I watch as the cat vomits up the milk. The same cat is again featured after the drug has been administered, and this time, no chunder (though there is a fair bit of dribble). The whole time watching I was transfixed by the wide helpless pussycat eyes, and they continue to haunt me still.
( cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 22 Jun 2007, 12:12, Reply)