Most people believe that experiments on animals are necessary, but they are not. The medical research establishment, pharmaceutical companies, other industries and a sizeable public relations machine keep this belief alive. Why? Because lab animal study safeguards industry against legal responsibility and is hugely profitable, from a financial point of view only.
Animal experimentation continually falls short of providing the rigorous criteria that define real science - accuracy, predictability and applicability. Applying animal data to humans meets none of these requirements consistently. Why submit another species to pseudo-scientific exploration of human disease when human-based methods are available?
By contrast, there exist many rewarding human-based methodologies, some time-honored and some new, that provide accurate, usable information about our diseases and their cures. These methodologies do not require the guesswork that accompanies extrapolations from animal-data to humans. They do not "replace" animal experimentation per se. Animal experimentation does not reliably lead to cures for human disease so it needs to be "replaced" with something that does. The methodologies listed below are required to overcome animal experimentation’s enormous inadequacy and dangers.
The following truly scientific methods are accurate, predictive and applicable. It is human health that is at risk and human wellness that is our objective. And none of these methods, though human-based, imposes risks on humans.
Scientific innovation would get a big boost if animal experimentation ceased. These more rewarding techniques would gather strength under augmented effort and increased funding. It is entirely likely that we would then find cures for today’s most challenging illnesses.
It is not precise to call these human-based techniques “alternatives to animal experimentation.” Mistakenly, that term implies that past medical achievements necessarily relied on lab animals. A true reading of medicine’s history reveals our past and present reliance on non-animal methods.
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