re: Conservatives of the PB, do you have any liberal views?

Yes. It concerns the animal rights debate. I was heavily influenced by the writings of Peter Singer as well as IRL discussions with very bright grad students who were friends of mine.

Upper level mammals are sentient beings. I can think of a dozen specific emotions that my lab displays.

I believe that eating meat is OK because humans were designed to eat meat (that's why we evolved with incisor teeth). But I am opposed to killing animals for fun (big game trophies) and using animals for medical testing. It would be much more valuable to medicine to test on prisoners since they are more like us.