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I have no idea how to title this thread, but the article is worth reading.

Studies are done on lab animals and then reported as a break through in human health.

The article may be more interested in getting reports labeled better, but it clearly shows the pointlessness of using animals in lab studies.
http://www.healthnewsreview.org/2015/07/...-research/

Am I right? Every example given shows why the research gives us no useful information. The lab animals died for nothing.

Better, would be studies using humans who volunteer to test things.
People could test various diets and see what effect they have on our health. The change in diet would not need to be drastic. What do we really learn from over dosing rats and mice on salt?

We eat a high salt diet in North America and yet puberty has been occurring at younger and younger ages. That contradicts the mouse study.
Anyhow we are not rodents. We have different dietary needs.
A very good article. You are right, Catherine. The studies do indeed show the extreme folly of thinking that results in animals will be the same - or even similar - in humans. Mice are often used in experiments, but as you say, we are not rodents!!

Regarding the terrible Alzheimer's experiment mentioned in the article, this part hit home: after apparently successful results in mice, results in humans were disastrous:

"But hopes were dashed when the more than 300 volunteers who were moved onto phase 2 of the trial received their multi-dose injections. This was to be the therapeutic part of the trial. Instead, over a dozen patient volunteers began developing serious brain inflammation, and the number of cases of serious side effects continued to grow."

It was similar with thalidomide, which was tested on not just mice but lots of different animals, too. See http://www.prijatelji-zivotinja.hr/index.en.php?id=582
Thalidomide is just one of many drugs that have caused problems.


DES-Diethylstilbestrol, a synthetic estrogen was given to pregnant women with disastrous results. It was tested, but clearly it still caused problems in humans.
http://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/cause...fact-sheet


Animal testing gives a false sense of security

Animal testing gives us results for animals that do not necessarily equate with humans.

We can lose out on drugs that would be useful to us if they are not useful or are even dangerous for mice.

There are so many reasons why animal testing doesn't work. We are just too stubborn to look at new methods.
If we want to be too stubborn to try new things that is our problem, but sadly in this case lab animals needlessly pay the price for our stubbornness. They are not even giving their lives to help humans as the Thalidomide tragedy has shown us.