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do you realize to test vaccines to killer diseases we inject animals with bad diseases all the time?

• ethanbond 7y ago
  Granted these researchers probably didn’t know what they’d find, but I figure part (in my case, all) of the discomfort comes from the relative inanity of the result. Torture mice to discover that stress turns hair white and whoa we might be able to prevent stress from turning people’s hair white. The benefit of their suffering is nowhere near developing vaccines for harmful diseases (at this point, anyway).
  • s1artibartfast 7y ago
    >The benefit of their suffering is nowhere near developing vaccines for harmful diseases (at this point, anyway) 1) They did more than see if their hair turned white. They identified the protein responsible for stem cell death and methods to suppress the stem cell death. 2) Science is additive. Nearly every single medical product you benefit from today was supported by hundreds of modest animal experiments.
    • ethanbond 7y ago
      Not debating any of this, mostly commenting that, “yeah well we torture mice to discover vaccines” is not a good rebuttal to someone’s discomfort with this experiment.