alt Hacker NewsAnytime I see headlines like these, I think of the countless animals tortured to death. The sheer level of suffering, all for this Frankenstein nonsense. 90–95% of drugs that appear safe and effective in animal tests ultimately fail in human trials. They mention mice, but there are likely other animals involved, like dogs. Animals deliberately bred with crippling diseases, all for fame and fortune.
More than 110 million animals are killed in the United States each year in experiments. I'd rather just accept Alzheimer's than be complicit in this evil.
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ssstt • yesterday at 7:29 PM
If you don’t want to be complicit you can always stop taking any drug
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NotGMan • yesterday at 9:27 PM
Given the choice between a drug saving the life of my (future) child or sacrificing animals I know what I'd choose.
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> all for fame and fortune
I understand the compassion for animals, of course, but not this sentence. Advancing science is not "all for fame or fortune". If it cures people, I can see it. I too would love a world without animal suffering, but I'd also love to not be literally seeing (and I just came back from my parents') my dad slip more and more into nothingness at the hand of this stupid disease.