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JANUARY 11, 2009

They do support some animal-based studies (which sucks); HOWEVER, they acknowledge that much animal research is useless. Remember animal research doesn't just create reports, it creates CAREERS as well.) Tags: animal research. I'll let them describe their positions in their own words.

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APRIL 4, 2009

The feud between animal rights activists and researchers is among the bitterest in science. But many researchers - although adamant that animal research remains critical to finding cures and expanding medical knowledge - have come to concede that using creatures as human stand-ins is unnecessary for many procedures.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Just read an August update from an ALDF lawyer about medical research. Tags: animal research. I was struck by this paragraph. That's a lot of saved lives. But would researchers be willing to share their results? Doubtful if it means endangering their potential patents.

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AUGUST 8, 2009

It should be no surprise that the American Veterinary Medical Association is an apologist. They have paying members that are part of the animal research industry itself. Cleverly, they also emphasize how many "animals" are saved by animal research. Wouldn't Fluffy die without all the benefits of animal testing?

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JUNE 16, 2010

I particularly question the use of chimpanzees in medical research. Tags: animal experimentation animal research. From what I recall, chimpanzees share at least 95 percent of human DNA, although the number that floats around the most is 98.6 The following is from The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2009

They want us to keep on funneling billions and billions of taxpayer dollars to the drug companies, the research universities and the suppliers of the animals and the animal testing equipment. Tags: animal research drug companies medical research. How stupid do they think we are?

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JULY 12, 2009

In 2007, the National Academy of Sciences published a report calling on the Environmental Protection Agency to make a fundamental shift in its toxicity testing strategies away from testing on mammals and focusing increasingly on new, more accurate—not to mention, more ethical—in vitro toxicity testing.

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JULY 20, 2009

Testing drugs on animal is unpleasant. Do not be fooled into thinking scientists are using animals unnecessarily for perverse reasons. There is only one alternative to testing drugs on animals: testing them on humans. Anyway, here's one particularly annoying paragraph from the post. No one likes doing it.

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APRIL 23, 2010

Tags: animal research utah university of utah undercover investigation PETA.

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MAY 15, 2009

According to the Members of Parliament (MPs), who adopted the report on its first review last week, all planned tests should be subject to mandatory ethical assessments to take into account the concerns of the public on the matter. Tags: animal experimentation europe animal research medical research.

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OCTOBER 12, 2009

But as far as they are concerned, I am still an animal rights terrorist for the mere fact that I disagree with them. 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.) I'm sorry, but I am not moved.

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OCTOBER 24, 2009

I came across these stories about two different medical experiments using mice. In this experiment, scientists tested whether lighting can cause depression. So, why put the animals through this if it's not even a reflective experiment. They used different lighting situations to see how they affect mice moods.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2009

The research project, led by Jack Bergman of McLean Hospital, a Harvard Medical School affiliate in Belmont, Mass., In Bergman's study, according to Discovery News, 18 to 28 squirrel monkeys would be subjected to radiation and periodically tested to gauge how exposure affects performance in a variety of learned tasks.

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JUNE 5, 2009

Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing, in collaboration with a number of government agencies, has established AltWeb, the Alternatives to Animal Testing Web site. Tags: animal experimentation animal research activism animal rights medical research.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2010

The increase was largely due to new EU rules on chemical compounds, which have led to an increase in testing on rats, the inspectors said. More than half the experiments were carried out for academic research and one third of those were for medical research. Tags: animal research Netherlands.

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JULY 25, 2009

This statement is mainly motivated by a recent conversation with someone who has a science degree (I think it's biology), but who actually works for a clinical testing company. She's always talking about Darwin and DNA testing.) Tags: animal experimentation medical ethics medical research science.

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