http://www.opposingviews.com/questions/can-medical-research-on-animals-be-justified Opposing Views - Can Medical Research on Animals be Justified? http://www.opposingviews.com/counters/animal-based-medical-testing-is-unreliable In his attempt to excuse the horrific and painful abuse of animals in laboratories, Wesley J. Smith accuses animal rights advocates of using arguments against animal experimentation that are “intellectually dishonest and factually... Fri, 07 Nov 2008 10:36:58 -0800 http://www.opposingviews.com/counters/animal-based-medical-testing-is-unreliable http://www.opposingviews.com/counters/animal-research-detrimental-to-animals-humans The Nuremburg Code was written in the 1940’s. Many Jim Crow laws were written around the same time to protect white southerners and we’ve progressed past those laws. Many high-tech, effective non-animal testing methods exist, and more are... Fri, 07 Nov 2008 10:13:52 -0800 http://www.opposingviews.com/counters/animal-research-detrimental-to-animals-humans http://www.opposingviews.com/arguments/animal-research-harms-the-environment A little-discussed problem with the use of animals in medical research is the environmental impact. Yet the use and disposal of millions of animals each year greatly diminishes the quality of our air, soil, and water. Air contamination is... PCRM Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:46:26 -0800 http://www.opposingviews.com/arguments/animal-research-harms-the-environment http://www.opposingviews.com/arguments/public-sentiment-against-animal-research Although the debate over using animals in medical research receives little attention in the media, information about animal experiments is reaching the public. Polls clearly show that many people disapprove of animal testing. In one... PCRM Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:44:27 -0800 http://www.opposingviews.com/arguments/public-sentiment-against-animal-research http://www.opposingviews.com/arguments/animal-research-is-wasteful-and-expensive In addition to scientific and humane incentives, there are also substantial economic advantages to the adoption of replacements for animal tests. Animal-based methods are routinely very costly in money and time. Non-animal test methods are... PCRM Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:44:10 -0800 http://www.opposingviews.com/arguments/animal-research-is-wasteful-and-expensive http://www.opposingviews.com/arguments/animals-suffer-greatly-morals-at-issue The use of animals in medical research is morally unjustifiable not just because it hampers medical progress for humans, but because it is inhumane. Animal testing inherently and unavoidably causes animal pain, distress, and suffering. In many... PCRM Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:43:58 -0800 http://www.opposingviews.com/arguments/animals-suffer-greatly-morals-at-issue http://www.opposingviews.com/arguments/non-animal-tests-are-more-accurate-and-efficient Non-animal methods have more predictive value and specificity for the human condition than do animal methods, which rely on different species with different anatomies and physiologies. In one head-to-head comparison, the Multicentre Evaluation... PCRM Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:43:44 -0800 http://www.opposingviews.com/arguments/non-animal-tests-are-more-accurate-and-efficient http://www.opposingviews.com/arguments/animal-tests-are-unreliable-for-research-and-drug-testing We see the headlines every day: “New miracle drug cures xxx disease in mice.” Rarely do we see follow-up stories touting the drug’s effectiveness in humans. That’s because 92 percent of all... PCRM Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:43:35 -0800 http://www.opposingviews.com/arguments/animal-tests-are-unreliable-for-research-and-drug-testing http://www.opposingviews.com/arguments/animal-research-has-minimal-oversight-regulation-and-accountability Despite the billions of animals killed each year in laboratories worldwide, most countries have few laws that govern the conduct of an experiment, limit what animals are forced to endure, or prevent the duplication of painful experiments. In the... Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:43:29 -0800 http://www.opposingviews.com/arguments/animal-research-has-minimal-oversight-regulation-and-accountability http://www.opposingviews.com/arguments/animal-based-medical-research-is-cruel Animals used for experiments are routinely infected with diseases they would never normally contract, cut open, burned, starved, driven insane, poisoned, and killed—and it's all legal. The March of Dimes, a charity... Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:43:23 -0800 http://www.opposingviews.com/arguments/animal-based-medical-research-is-cruel http://www.opposingviews.com/arguments/more-relevant-and-reliable-research-tools-and-techniques-exist Human clinical and epidemiological studies, in vitro studies, and computer simulators are faster, more reliable, less expensive, and more humane than animal tests. Comparative studies of human populations allow doctors and scientists to discover... Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:43:17 -0800 http://www.opposingviews.com/arguments/more-relevant-and-reliable-research-tools-and-techniques-exist http://www.opposingviews.com/arguments/animal-based-medical-research-is-wasteful-unreliable-and-unsound Studies have shown time and again that animal experimenters are often wasting lives—both animal and human—and precious resources trying to infect animals with diseases that they would never normally contract. Because different species of animals... Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:43:01 -0800 http://www.opposingviews.com/arguments/animal-based-medical-research-is-wasteful-unreliable-and-unsound http://www.opposingviews.com/arguments/animal-based-medical-research-is-dangerous-to-human-health U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Mike Leavitt stated in 2006 that the Food and Drug Administration must come to grips with an appalling statistic: Nine out of 10 drugs tested safe and effective on animals fail when they get to human... Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:42:46 -0800 http://www.opposingviews.com/arguments/animal-based-medical-research-is-dangerous-to-human-health http://www.opposingviews.com/arguments/animals-may-soon-supply-body-parts-and-organs-for-people A recent story in the Telegraph illustrates vividly the tremendous benefit that humans can receive from research with animals. A breakthrough in preventing tissue rejection may permit animal parts and organs to be transplanted into humans--a... Wesley J. Smith Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:43:58 -0700 http://www.opposingviews.com/arguments/animals-may-soon-supply-body-parts-and-organs-for-people http://www.opposingviews.com/arguments/animal-research-crucial-in-identifying-the-sars-virus Here's one recent example of how animal research helped scientists quickly prevent a pandemic.  In late 2002, public health professionals were terrified.   A new and deadly disease given the name of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome--or... Wesley J. Smith Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:43:55 -0700 http://www.opposingviews.com/arguments/animal-research-crucial-in-identifying-the-sars-virus http://www.opposingviews.com/arguments/animal-research-protects-human-rights The current system of using animals in medical and scientific research was created in the wake of the horrific medical abuses of human prisoners in the concentration camps during World War II. Like a phoenix rising out of the ashes of the... Wesley J. Smith Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:43:51 -0700 http://www.opposingviews.com/arguments/animal-research-protects-human-rights http://www.opposingviews.com/arguments/new-medical-products-must-be-tested-in-living-organisms Animal rights/liberationists mount two primary arguments against the use of animals in medical and scientific research. The first is entirely an ethical assertion: Regardless of the admitted benefits humans receive from animal experimentation, the... Wesley J. Smith Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:43:49 -0700 http://www.opposingviews.com/arguments/new-medical-products-must-be-tested-in-living-organisms