The stimulation of hunger... causes mice to take in information more quickly, and to retain it better — basically, it makes them smarter. And that’s very likely

The stimulation of hunger... causes mice to take in information more quickly, and to retain it better — basically, it makes them smarter. And that’s very likely to be true for humans as well. So based on a so-called scientific study of mice, we have this great insight on how humans think. This study and ergo this article are either wrong, or mice are so close to humans in the way they behave that it's ethically and scientifically indefensible to conduct harmful and lethal experiments on them. In other words, if mice are such a reliable proxy for human beings, we shouldn't experiment on them because they are people too. If they are not reliable proxies, then we need to stop using them as such. That fundamental question is largely being ignored in the scientific community, but until it's answered, these studies are bad science.