(August 21, 2011 at 10:45 pm)Skeptic Wrote: human cadavers are very useful
If you want to test the effects of a drug on a corpse... Testing the interaction with the metabolism is one of if not the most important aspects of animal testing, you can't get those results from a cadaver.
Quote: I believe as well as computer modelling.
Except the models are far from complete, they can only test the effects of well known compounds in well known circumstances, you wouldn't be able to make many breakthroughs at all.
Quote:Of course, animal research isn't going to end instantly so there's plenty of time for transition to non animal based research.
That rests on the assumption that we should transition to begin with... Frankly I couldn't care less about some rats in a cage, unless they can benefit me in some way, then I care about them to the extent they can assist human progress.
Quote: To assume that little Timmy's condition can't be solved without animal research or that it even would be solved with animal research is just an assumption.
As is the notion that corpses and computers can fill the void.
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