Remove TEST
Remove Companies Remove Medical Research Remove Research
article thumbnail

Seal Industry Tries to Capitalize on Medical Researchers Conjectures

Critter News

The research at Laval University is still in the earliest stages. Pibarot has yet to begin collecting data through testing rodents and he says that a clinical trial in humans is hypothetical at this point - at least a decade of positive results and funding would have to be established first.

Seals 100
article thumbnail

UK Records Increase in Animal Testing

Critter News

The increase marks the greatest leap in animal use in medical research since 1986, when the government introduced new auditing procedures. Substantial numbers of animals are used to test the safety of new drugs before they are allowed to be used in human trials.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Animal Researchers' Emotional Blackmail

Critter News

Here's a succinct letter to the editor that summarizes the emotional blackmail propogated by animal researchers. The million dollar ad campaign by the Foundation for Biomedical Research (“Critical research,” Nov. Tags: animal research drug companies medical research. How stupid do they think we are?

article thumbnail

Animal Researchers Promote Sob Stories

Critter News

I don't support animal research and I have no sympathy for animal researchers. I would never advocate violence against a researcher. I almost quit a book club a year ago because one of the members is a proponent of medical research. She is a data tech for a clinical testing company (for profit by the way.)

article thumbnail

Why I Question Animal Testing 2.1

Critter News

This is a continuation of an earlier post about why I question animal testing. Oftentimes, scientists seem to think that they just need to waive their PhDs and research projects in everyone's faces and we should all shut up and bow our heads to their great wisdom. It is about the Bayh-Dole Act and it has really stuck with me.

Animal 100
article thumbnail

Malaysian Firm to Establish New Animal Testing Facility

Critter News

The stupid project is in partnership with a French pharmaceutical company. Tags: animal research pharmaceuticals primates medical research malaysia. Fortunately, there are Malaysian activists opposing it. But of course, the argument will be that the project is economic development, jobs and "for the good of humanity.".

article thumbnail

Europeans Continue to Search for Alternatives to Animal Research.Why Not Americans?

Critter News

They have drug companies that are just as powerful as those here. At a conference in Brussels, Belgium on 6 November, European Commission Vice-President Günter Verheugen, and Science and Research Commissioner Janez Potocnik restated the EU's commitment to the reduction of animal testing. Is public outcry greater? What gives?