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Originally Posted by Suzles
It was developed by the Germans (not the Nazis) and was available in the late 1950's to early 1960's. In ALL the animal testing done there were never any abnormalities in offspring. Children were however born with terrible deformities. It was this drug that set in motion the current anti animal testing lobby to this day. http://www.thalidomide.ca/en/informa...alidomide.html
It was EXACTLY what I was talking about. If it wasn't what you were talking about then I don't know what to say. Let some of the worst of the criminal element be given the chance to redeem some of themselves by volunteering for drug testing.
I wonder if you have really thought that through. Sounds like bravado to me. Heard it all before. |
So 1 example if its a real example, that outdoes the 100's of breakthroughs, if not 1000's, that have led to life saving medicines, procedures, and deepened our understanding scientifically?
Also just to gauge you, if you knew you had a life threatening disease and knew the medicine to save you had been extensively used on animals first would you object?
We are still far away from having real viable options to animal testing for most science research, the vivo/invitro is still far from being a replacement, computer models are far from being ready to be anywhere close to replacing the data from animal research.
Don't forget not all animal testing is hurting them, a lot of it is also research we use to improve not just our lives but benefits the planet. There's a great show on Discovery called weird connections that shows us how researching a duck's quack leads to improved sonar that can help firefighters save lives.
No scientist wants to harm animals, animal testing is only done under strict rules, regulations, and monitored by many groups.