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> it's unethical to let people run themselves to death obviously. It's also unethical to let rats run themselves to death, and it wouldn't pass an ethics revie
by gerbilly 7y ago
> it's unethical to let people run themselves to death obviously.
It's also unethical to let rats run themselves to death, and it wouldn't pass an ethics review board if you suggested an experiment like that these days.
- pvaldes 7y agoSo the truth is that rats could run themselves to death (seems unlikely) or maybe could stop at some point before, when some metabolite reachs some level or falls under some level. Impossible to know it because... taboo. Even if this information could help to understand better anorexia nervosa in humans. Maybe we should do the experiment with running thumbleweed instead.