Right. I completely agree that human clinical trials were required, but the essay claims that the results of the trial were “predictable” and “might seem pretty

Right. I completely agree that human clinical trials were required, but the essay claims that the results of the trial were “predictable” and “might seem pretty obvious.” There’s a saying that it’s a great time to be a mouse with muscular dystrophy. It does seem like using mice as a model hasn’t worked very well, but I am not sure what the alternative might be (chimps?) or why researchers continue to use mice anyway. Edited to add: It would probably be emotionally/ethically more difficult to use chimps … they do some pretty awful things to the mice, making them run until they collapse repeatedly and then killing them at the end (for example).