Wiebe Bijker chaired a KNAW committee to investigate possibilities of decreasing the number of animal experiments in fundamental neurosciences. This report, together with a watered-down ‘inventory’ on the basis of the committee’s report by the KNAW Board, was presented to ministers C.J. Schouten (Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality) and I.K. van Engelshoven (Education, Culture and Science).
On 4 July, they sent a letter with their response, the report and the inventory to parliament.
