Why do scientists defend vivisection?
Anti-vivisectionists use a two-pronged argument to substantiate their case against animal experimentation. They oppose animal experimentation on both ethical and scientific grounds. Both perspectives of this argument provide compelling testimony that vivisection is cruel and inadequate, and that it wastes time, money and resources that could be better put to use in relieving human suffering. Why, then, do researchers continue to conduct and defend animal experiments in light of insurmountable evidence, even from within the scientific community, that it provides meaningless results? The answers are many and varied, but they all lead down the same path: money. Despite the fact that animal experimentation has been shown to be a flawed methodology, animal research continues because it is in the best financial interests of scientists, as well as a number of other entities. These entities include universities, regulation bureaucrats, pharmaceutical companies, scientific journals, animal bree
