Animal Testing Ethics
This cluster centers on debates about the ethics of animal experimentation in scientific research, particularly using rats, mice, and monkeys, including concerns over animal suffering, the reliability of animal models for human applications, and alternatives like human testing.
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Why are we okay with experimenting on rats but not on monkeys?
Human scientific curiosity isn't good for the test animals.
In lab animals!Not necessarily applicable 1:1 in humans.
Dude. “In rats” is such an easy cliche. Should we create an LLM to post it on every HN story regarding animal studies? Rats are a decent model. Would you prefer we test hypotheses on your body to get started instead? Let’s look at the experimental methods and develop better intuitions about what can reasonably hypothetically extrapolated to humans and what doesn’t instead of just saying “in rats.”
What's that old joke about mice benefiting from all the research but not humans? Maybe we can switch back to (this time voluntary) human experimentation at some point.
Certain experiments are not ethical nor possible to do in human subjects, so scientists rely on model systems to interrogate biological questions. It has become somewhat common for people to immediately dismiss scientific findings on the basis that this research was done in a mouse, and therefore not applicable to human biology.
They were replicating an animal experimentCould do an additional study though
Has this been tested in animals? I see no mention of this.
Because people are not lab animals maybe?
Do you have any consideration for the animals are suffering from this research? Just curious.