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> Around 65,000 NHPs are used every year in the United States, and around 7,000 across the European Union These are all “kept secret” too. Testing on monkeys i
by ricardobeat 3y ago
> Around 65,000 NHPs are used every year in the United States, and around 7,000 across the European Union
These are all “kept secret” too. Testing on monkeys is much, much larger than Neuralink and one can imagine there are even more gruesome stories coming from infectious disease and toxicity studies. It is cruel and heart breaking, but we don’t really have an alternative, how would anything get to a safe human trial stage otherwise?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_testing_on_non-human_primates https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_testing_on_non-human_...
- beebmam 3y agoTest on humans and pay them appropriately.
- Faaak 3y agoAnd a simple drug would then cost 1000+ bucks/dose
- ricardobeat 3y agoGreat idea, there is no chance masses of poor and disenfranchised will flock to it as a means of survival. Right? Worldcoin happened just two months ago…
- hef19898 3y agoBut honestly, why pay those poor folks for it, if the same can be had for free?
- DoingIsLearning 3y agoIf you look up any pharma or medical device company that has 'pre-clinical' trials that is usually a politically correct term for "N monkeys/sheep/pigs suffered in the process". Animal suffering should never be frivolous and that is why you have ethics committees but to think that we can advance without their suffering is naive.
- mandmandam 3y agoDid you read the bit in the article where the law was broken and systematically covered up based on wilful misinterpretation of established law and practice?