Forced Swim Test

[Catherine]

This test has been around since the 70s. It has produced no useful information to help humans. How are we just hearing about it now. Why is it still going on.

https://www.peta.org/features/floriana-l...swim-test/

I am glad that Peta is doing an expose of this cruelty.
Every time I think the behavior of scientists has reached its lowest point someone shows me that some people's capacity for cruelty is bottomless.

The actions of groups like Peta are at least causing some scientists to rethink their work.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02133-2

The more I read about this test I wonder why it was ever considered useful. I see no link between a mouse/rat desperately swimming for its life and a human suffering from depression. The only thing I can think is that these scientists never actually met a depressed person.

Science has come up with some very strange tests that prove nothing at all. Worse they keep getting grants to do these tests over and over. If a fraction of the grant money was ever used for sensible research we would have had results and good treatments for many things years ago.