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I’m fine with that. Put it at the feet of pop science blogging. I’m less fine with the time and resources spent on mouse models. They already know you’d get th
by dd8601fn 1mo ago
I’m fine with that. Put it at the feet of pop science blogging.
I’m less fine with the time and resources spent on mouse models. They already know you’d get the same utility from a magic 8 ball, but they do it anyway.
- gus_massa 1mo agoMouse models are useful to discard very bad ideas. There was a recent experiment to use bacteria to kill cancer https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46306894 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46306894 They tried like 40 bacterias in vitro, then like 9 in mice, and only 1 was useful in mice and they will continue only with that, perhaps in humans. Anyway, as you suggest, there is a high chance it will fail. Also, you can do nasty stuff to mice that would never be allowed with humans. In that experiment they injected cancer cells in mice with a bad inmune system, so they could get like 90 mice with cancer and run the experiment in a short time. No ethical committee would approve that in humans.
- IAmBroom 1mo agoYour claim seems to be that testing medicines in animals is useless, because "everyone knows it's not going to work". Congratulations. You've just reduced all of medical science to the Tuskegee STD experiment.