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Assuming both your parent and your comment are correct (and no other controls), then the experiment tells us the effects of the substance on populations that ar
by lovemenot 5y ago
Assuming both your parent and your comment are correct (and no other controls), then the experiment tells us the effects of the substance on populations that are disproportionately predisposed to cancer. Surely, not very infourmative in a cancer study.
Note, I don't know whether these assumptions actually hold. Just taking it on its face.
- fsckboy 5y agoI believe he's referring to the hypothesis (I think tested) touted by Bret Weinstein that lab mice breeding has led to strains with extremely long telomeres, a feature that makes them resilient to all sorts of cellular damage, but makes them also susceptible to cancer; Bret's point being that they aren't good for either cancer nor non-cancer research. Lab mice breeders may have responded to this idea, but he alleges it's been swept under the carpet, too many studies at stake. Or something like that.