We do not need to torment animals to study human illnesses, and in fact, animal research will always be fundamentally flawed when applied to the human system.
For decades animals have been used in learning experiments.
Typically these involve a chamber that trains mice, rats or pigeons
to press a lever and receive either a reward like a sip of fluid or
a punishment, like a shock. But we don’t need animals to study
learning and in fact, these artificially constructed environments
shed little light on human learning. The first article describes how
scientists used non-invasive EEG to impact the learning process in
human volunteers.
Another common area of animal experiments involves studying human
smoking and tobacco use. Incredibly these experiments still
continue, even though it’s widely known that smoking is harmful.
Scientists are still subjecting animals to smoke and nicotine,
claiming to understand how we can help smokers quit. The second
article describes an experiment that uses machine learning to
discover existing medications that may help.
The articles we highlight each week are not necessarily endorsed by
CAARE as examples of outstanding research, although some are, but
they are posted here to demonstrate how we don’t need to torment
animals to study these topics, and in fact, animal research will
always be fundamentally flawed when applied to the human system.
More breakthroughs for humans without using animals include:
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