• MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works
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    6 days ago

    Would be more apt if animals’ physiology was even remotely similar to humans though. Test environments in programming can at least be exact replicas of production environments.

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      6 days ago

      But but it worked on my machine

      In 2004, the FDA estimated that 92 percent of drugs that pass preclinical tests, including “pivotal” animal tests, fail to proceed to the market.More recent analysis suggests that, despite efforts to improve the predictability of animal testing, the failure rate has actually increased and is now closer to 96 percent

      https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4594046/

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        6 days ago

        There’s actual medication that was tested on animals that was completely fine then when it got approved it was given to human women and caused crazy amounts of miscarriages. Different species are not comparable when it comes to medication, testing on animals is almost completely pointless.

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        6 days ago

        It sometimes feels as if the medical and scientific knowledge of people who are hardline against animal testing at all is exactly that and only that thinking, yes.