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While trolling through the new, shiny beta F1000 site (shh! I’m not supposed to tell you about that yet) I noticed that a paper from way back in September last year is still up there on our top ten lists. This was a commentary in J Neurosci saying, among other things, that the

time has come for the scientific community to make a concerted effort in condemning animal-rights extremism and in reaching out to the public to explain our work, its importance, and our commitment to the strictest ethical guidelines of animal research.

Furthermore, say the authors,

A special effort should be made to emphasize the irreplaceable role for nonhuman primates in neuroscience research to the public.

(10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3738-09.2009)

It obviously touched a nerve because it garnered 17 evaluations (and Steve P blogged it), second only to a controversial paper from 2005 on non-Mendelian inheritance in Arabidopsis (that actually could be wrong