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Most of experimental medical research fits your model and is usually called “basic” or “preclinical research”. This is well regulated by federal laws and guide
by robwwilliams 4y ago
Most of experimental medical research fits your model and is usually called “basic” or “preclinical research”.
This is well regulated by federal laws and guidelines (and hassled relentlessly ironically by non-Vegan PETA members).
Much of the progress in medicine is driven by this basic and preclinical work—-from brewer’s yeast to mice, rats, and monkeys.
If anyone suggests that experimental research using animals has not delivered over the last 100 years please do not just roll your eyes. Tell them that they are flat-out wrong. Almost every disease or human condition has useful animal models—yes even dyslexia and schizophrenia. One exception—-gun-ownership mania.
- ben_w 4y ago> One exception—-gun-ownership mania. I know it's not what you meant, but I seem to remember a short clip of some idiots giving a monkey (or was it a chimp?) what looked to my unskilled eyes like an AK-47.
- danielvf 4y agoThat clip was a viral marketing campaign video created for Rise of the Planet of the Apes. https://www.adweek.com/creativity/movie-teaser-reminds-you-not-give-ak-47-chimpanzee-133378/ https://www.adweek.com/creativity/movie-teaser-reminds-you-n...
- ben_w 4y agoI think that might have been it, yes. Nicely done, even now it doesn't feel CGI.
- moonchrome 4y agoI read it as "if you want to build health products start building products for animals because it's not regulated and you get to iterate/develop fast"
- zeckalpha 4y agoAs a former caretaker of a diabetic pet, I wish that had an measurable impact on the quality of care in the pet space, but it doesn’t.