Study Confirms Vivisection Is Bad Science

[Crash]

Study Confirms Vivisection Is Bad Science

Tuesday, 16 January 2007, 1:14 pm

Press Release: National Anti-Vivisection Campaign

 

A recent study published on 15 December in the prestigious "British

medical journal" provides further confirmation that vivisection is not

just ethically abhorrent but is scientifically flawed, says National

Anti-vivisection Campaign chair Dr. Michael Morris. The study, by Pablo

Perel and others, compared systematic reviews of animal experiments and

clinical human trials of the same treatment. In all 6 comparisons, the

results from the clinical trials were different from those gained by

animal data, showing how relying on animal "models" to predict human

responses to treatment is a hit and miss affair.

 

The authors also found that the quality of animal experimentation was

"poor", with vivisectionists failing to comply with basic scientific

procedures such as random allocation of animals to each group and

blinded assessment of the outcome.

 

"This is just the latest in a series of studies in high class peer

reviewed journals showing again and again on both theoretical and

experimental grounds that vivisection is shonky science, due to the

inherent differences at the cellular and molecular level between humans

and other species", says Dr. Morris. "For both ethical and scientific

reasons, it is time that this archaic and barbaric practice is

discontinued".

[Richard]

Cool, I'll be glad if this continues and has more in depth / conclusive investigations

[Crash]

Me too (as long as the further investigations don't include more animal testing to try to prove that they are right to continue to test ).