I think you need to do some more balanced research. Animal testing has somehow been involved with every major medical achievement in the 20th century. We have innumerable examples of where animal research clearly did work. We developed cures for leprosy and small pox (off the top of my head) almost exclusively through testing vaccines on animals first, and they have been hugely successful. On the flip side, there are cases where medicines were NOT tested on animals, and consequently killed lots and lots of people.

Now if you would like to sign up to inject an HIV vaccine (which if you remember, generally involves injecting either the HIV virus itself or something akin to it into your body, sort of like the polio vaccine which ended up leaving thousands paralyzed even though it was meant to be a cure, not a cause) that has never been tried on another living body, go to it. You're doing a great service for humanity. But I would much rather survive, just speaking for myself.

And if penicillin had been tested on animals, it might have never reached clinical trials.

I think as our computer models become more sophisticated, and our ability to monitor the body on a cellular level develops into a feasible process, animal testing will only be done on drugs meant for that animal.

Plenty of people DO volunteer to have an HIV vaccine injected into them,

If the animals signed a consent waiver, I'd say fair game.

if you had HIV, would you rather use treatments that were tested on animals which may or may not have immune systems that are going to react to the treatment in the same way yours will, or would you rather get a treatment that's been proven to work on humans?

So if you feel that Animal Testing or Human Testing insures drug safety,,,keep sticking your head in the sand.

Some light reading, anyone? It gets really good at the bottom of page 5...

And what exactly are you proposing as a replacement?

and am sorry to hear you are going into medicine. MY stepfather was a FP, I would not touch back then, today even more so.

If you told everyone that using a cell phone you had a 0.1 % chance of the phone blowing up, not many would use them.

I am not saying that RTC are bad, just the information coming from such is being "filtered" to get the Drug OEM's drug sold.

If you told everyone that using a cell phone you had a 0.1 % chance of the phone blowing up, not many would use them.

Why do you find 8-9 more interesting?

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I hope you don't mean because I am an anti-social, criminally-minded Dumpshocker...