Animal experiments are on the losing side of science
An Alternatives to Animal Testing, Experimentation and Dissection Article from All-Creatures.org

FROM CAARE Citizens for Alternatives to Animal Research
October 2021

The number of scientists who affirm that animal experiments cannot deliver accurate results for human medicine is never-ending.

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The number of scientists who affirm that animal experiments cannot deliver accurate results for human medicine is never-ending.

Earlier this month, Dr. Alirez Mashaghi, an award-winning doctor and scientist at Harvard and the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research left no doubt when he said: “… the high failure rates of drugs in clinical trials suggest that the differences between animals and humans are too big. Laboratory animals are therefore neither reliable models of humans disease nor good predictors of the effectiveness and toxicity of drugs.”

Biotechnology entrepreneur, Dr. Pascal Descargues, made this same message clear when he told a pharmaceutical publication in April, “Time after time it has been proven that animals are an insufficient predictor of drug safety, or efficacy in humans. ... More than 90% of drugs entering clinical trials fail, despite positive results in preclinical animal tests.”

Not surprisingly, such statements are not at all rare. CAARE collects these testimonials to show how the flaws of animal experiments are widely acknowledged. You can read our most recent compilation of statements by scientists who understand that animal experiments are failing.

It’s an outrage that millions of animals are suffering and dying in experiments that are essentially useless. CAARE is committed to changing that. That’s why we introduced the Humane Research & Testing Act earlier this year, to compel government funding and support for research without animals and why we work diligently to dispel this myth, so that an informed public that will no longer be lulled into complacency with notions of “life-saving” animal experiments.

 

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