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Throughout his career, Bross testified to what he saw as the perils of federally funded scientific research. Regarding vivisection, he told Congress, "The money granted for animal research was spent for two reasons: First, it was a highly profitable undertaking for certain medical schools and certain research institutions which were incapable of doing any genuine cancer research. Second, it was sustained by a superstitious belief in a grossly unscientific notion: mice are miniature men." In his review of Bross' 1992 book Scientific Fraud vs Scientific Truth: The Establishment is the Enemy of the Enterprise, Stephen R Kaufman, co-chairman of the Medical Research Modernisation Committee in New York and the Christian Vegetarian Association, said Bross accused "official science" bureaucrats of using fraudulent data to defend political policy. Bross thought that the politicians who appointed scientific administrators were beholden to industry concerns that underwrote their campaigns. In turn, the administrators were beholden to the politicians.