In his article, Hubel pointed out the ties between the terrorist Animal Liberation Front and the above-ground People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. A January 1992 publication of the Office of Technology Assessment (Technology Against Terrorism: Structuring Security) links these groups with Barnard's own organization, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, whose views, the OTA report notes, appear "to have little support within the medical community" (page 27). Some of Barnard's comments clearly illustrate why this should be the case.
For example, Barnard makes the unsubstantiated claim that more than half the drugs marketed from 1976 through 1985 "were so much more toxic than premarket animal and limited human trials had indicated that they had to be relabeled or withdrawn." I am not certain how serious a problem "relabeling" is, but according to the Office of Planning and Evaluation (OPE) of the United States Food and Drug Administration, only ...
