Charles Krauthammer Is for Human Exceptionalism, but I'd Rather Have Evidence than Mere Intuition

As our colleague Wesley Smith points out over at National Review's The Corner, Charles Krauthammer comes out firmly for human exceptionalism, and makes the needed distinction between animal welfare and animal rights. Well, good for him. Writes Krauthammer:

No. I'm not joining PETA. Indeed, I firmly believe that man is the measure of all things. Sometimes you have to choose. I cringe at medical experimentation, but if you need to study cats' eyes in order to spare some humans from blindness,...