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Looking for Books about Animal Experimentation

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But I want to be able to argue about it intelligently, citing science, not just morals. Apparently, there is a lot of argument out there than animal experimentation is even good for humans. A drug may work on an animal, but fail miserably on a human. Drugs are not always predictable from human to human even.

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Julian H. Franklin on the Use of Animals in Research

Animal Ethics

To inflict death or pain on animals for scientific or medical research is wrong morally, and ought to be prohibited. This does not mean that animals may never be deliberately harmed or become subjects of research. Hence, unlike humans, they cannot be called upon to sacrifice even for the good of other animals.

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

Animal Person

For Engber, who dispassionately describes procedures most of the time, the "advances" in the medical care of humans are all well worth what he and other vivisectionists do to dogs and other sentient nonhumans. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans. Maybe on paper.

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Always Question a Scientist

Critter News

and an accountant and an economist and any other "expert" that uses their field to claim a moral authority. And those scientists are humans with the same motivations and agendas as any other human. It doesn't mean that you have the moral authority to tell me that I must support animal testing because you know better.

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