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Glad I'm not a mouse: "After two weeks, half of the mice in each group were exposed to a searingly bright light for four hours. The other animals stayed in diml
by avdempsey 13y ago
Glad I'm not a mouse: "After two weeks, half of the mice in each group were exposed to a searingly bright light for four hours. The other animals stayed in dimly lit cages. This light exposure is a widely used and accepted means of inducing retinal degeneration in animals."
This sounds like torture to me. I love you scientific method, but sometimes you bum me out.
- mason240 13y ago>half of the mice in each group were exposed to a searingly bright light for four hours. That hits a little to close to home for me. Sure, a monitor isn't searing, but it is still bright.
- georgemcbay 13y agoThe real kicker to this is: "But obviously, mice are not people, so whether exercise can prevent or ameliorate macular degeneration in human eyes is “impossible to know, based on the data we have now,”" I have a fairly complex view of animal testing where I think it may be justified in some situations, but this type of testing in situations where you self-admit you didn't learn anything knowingly human-applicable when you could have done a more long term study just observing the eye health of multiple sets of older humans (one set which lives an active lifestyle and one which does not) is pretty fucked up.
- Houshalter 13y agoAnimal testing is horrible. There are some cases where it may be necessary, but this is just excessive. There was one guy who exploded hundreds of dogs in a vacuum, basically just to see what would happen. And I bet there are probably worse things being done even today.