The one thing the Trump administration got very right

Doctors examining a monkey at a lab in France. | Friso Gentsch/picture alliance via Getty Images

If there’s anything the Trump administration has gotten unequivocally right (besides inadvertently helping Mark Carney become prime minister of Canada), it’s this: Modern science, for all its remarkable capabilities, still remains far too dependent on one of the most primitive research methods there is — harming and killing animals. 

That was the message underlying a groundbreaking initiative...