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I dunno what to tell you, the Belmont report was about humans. It's right there in the name. Animal research is often regulated under a framework, just not the
by munin 9y ago
I dunno what to tell you, the Belmont report was about humans. It's right there in the name.
Animal research is often regulated under a framework, just not the IRB. My training was pretty clear on that.
- euyyn 9y agoI mean, he didn't say it was handled by the IRB. He just told me it was more strict. Maybe that was specific to MIT.
- munin 9y agoInteresting. At the institutions I'm familiar with, you can do all kinds of unspeakable crap to animals and no one cares unless PETA gets wind of it.
- euyyn 9y agoIf memory serves me well, a friend of mine there killed mutant zebrafish larvae, after being done with them, with bleach (as the approved protocol). And another friend at Harvard cut the heads off lab rats with scissors like Heidi plucking flowers. My understanding is the less you look like a human in the grand scheme of things, the more unspeakable crap we're comfortable with doing to you.