Vivisection is not a reliable means of testing human drugs

With the controversy over construction of the Oxford animal lab, and the media frenzy over campaigns such as Pro-Test, there has never been a more urgent time to separate ethics from science and to ask the key question: does animal testing help medicine today or hinder it? Overwhelming evidence shows that animals are not reliable predictors of human reactions, as the recent clinical trial fiasco demonstrated so spectacularly.......

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Source: Vivisection is not a reliable means of testing human drugs
Author: Kathy Archibald

Link: Denmark: Fewer lab animals used for tests
Link: Drug trial victim is home but facing new anguish
Link: EU/Commission against animal lab funding
Link: Help Rio De Janeiro Outlaw Vivisection!
Link: The Medical College of Wisconsin is the latest school to enter the debate on the use of animals in teaching


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