Are anti-vivisectionists anti-human and anti-science?
The end of animal research is not about being anti-human or anti-science. There is no opposition to medical progress, but a want to see real advances in the treatment and cure of human disease. I believe the route to these advances depends on the development of research techniques which do not involve animal models. Relying on animal based studies holds back medical science and I would like to see cutting edge, biologically relevant non-animal techniques employed. This is the 21st Century and it is time we stop relying on the assumption that test results from one species can safely be applied to another.
[back to top] The end of animal research is not about being anti-human or anti-science. There is no opposition to medical progress, but a want to see real advances in the treatment and cure of human disease. I believe the route to these advances depends on the development of research techniques which do not involve animal models. Relying on animal based studies holds back medical science and I would like to see cutting edge, biologically relevant non-animal techniques employed. This is the 21st Century and it is time we stop relying on the assumption that test results from one species can safely be applied to another. How will we combat AIDS without animal experimentation? [back to top] Logic dictates that if a researcher cannot successfully induce AIDS in another species, they will neither cure it in humans using animal experiments. Billions of pounds have been spent trying to infect animals with AIDS, and the most telling research so far has come from looking at the blood from people
