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d--blast Thursday at 1:11 PM1 replyview on HN

If it is the case that there are such treatments (easy to produce, 100% efficacy, no side effect) that cure fairly common deadly disease such as colorectal cancer in mice, and that never make it to human trial, there is something seriously broken about medical research...


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estearumlast Thursday at 3:01 PM

No, the issue is that mice are very different from humans.

The only thing such a state of affairs clearly indicates is broken is using mice as proto-human test subjects.

Which of course, when you state it like that, is obviously suboptimal. But no one knows what to do about it.

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