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Also “mouse models”. The only purpose mouse models serve is to fill the popular press with sensational findings and torture a lot of mice.
by hshdhdhj4444 10mo ago
Also “mouse models”.
The only purpose mouse models serve is to fill the popular press with sensational findings and torture a lot of mice.
- oceansky 10mo agoFor this particular research, it's possible as only 5% of mouse experiments become available to humans. But a lot of life-saving medicaments and techniques started as mouse testings, including Penicillin, cancer drugs and the polio vaccine.
- whimsicalism 10mo agothe only purpose of hacker news comments is to aggravate readers with overly reductive takes
- cwmoore 10mo agoThanks, both of you, now please stop it.
- Vaslo 10mo agoThey’re mice. I wouldn’t worry a whole lot about them.