Letter to Editor: Journal Editorial Vindicates Vivisectionists

M.W. Fox\u27s editorial, The \u27Show Dog\u27 Syndrome (IJSAP 3(1):3, 1982) cannot help but be extremely upsetting to any person who wants to see the particularly sadistic and useless experiments involving sentient beings recognized as such. I am referring to Fox\u27s reference to Overmeier\u27s learned helplessness experiments involving intense unavoidable electrical shock administered to dogs. Through reference to these kinds of experiments, Fox lends credibility to them; it would seem there is no other way to understand the show dog syndrome from a scientific perspective. Fox therefore validates Overmeier\u27s research and others who engage in similar research