I think most people, like myself view it as a nessasary evil at best and something we really should be putting all that computing power we've been building up over the years towards supplanting it. I want animal testing to have clear goals and minimize the suffering of the participants. They spent more money ensuring the Mengele wannabes were comfortable than the dogs, that shouldn't sit right with anyone.
Yeah, I canāt see the āethical tradeoffā hereā¦
Itās just āscienceā for the sake of āscienceā, and for grant money, and because they can (and arguably for the sake of cruelty itself), as innumerate other people here have pointed outā¦
Thereās no value in this. And I say this as a literal scientist-in-training, who has had to do live invertebrate experiments beforeā¦
I would refuse to do something like this, though. Or rats. Or fucking tuna, which is more relevant, in my caseā¦
It justā¦ Doesnāt sit well with me, as a āscience personā.
For some of my classmates, though? I could TOTALLY see them participating in a āstudyā like this one, if they could somehow convince themselves it was āworthwhileā or āvalidā. Or even just to get praise heaped on them by ādaddy professorāā¦ š
Even my parents, who are LITERALLY MEDICAL DOCTORS, have no qualms about justifying this, and would happily have participated, if it was āofferedā when they were at med schoolā¦
I think most people, like myself view it as a nessasary evil at best and something we really should be putting all that computing power we've been building up over the years towards supplanting it. I want animal testing to have clear goals and minimize the suffering of the participants. They spent more money ensuring the Mengele wannabes were comfortable than the dogs, that shouldn't sit right with anyone.
Yeah, I canāt see the āethical tradeoffā hereā¦
Itās just āscienceā for the sake of āscienceā, and for grant money, and because they can (and arguably for the sake of cruelty itself), as innumerate other people here have pointed outā¦
Thereās no value in this. And I say this as a literal scientist-in-training, who has had to do live invertebrate experiments beforeā¦
I would refuse to do something like this, though. Or rats. Or fucking tuna, which is more relevant, in my caseā¦
It justā¦ Doesnāt sit well with me, as a āscience personā.
For some of my classmates, though? I could TOTALLY see them participating in a āstudyā like this one, if they could somehow convince themselves it was āworthwhileā or āvalidā. Or even just to get praise heaped on them by ādaddy professorāā¦ š
Even my parents, who are LITERALLY MEDICAL DOCTORS, have no qualms about justifying this, and would happily have participated, if it was āofferedā when they were at med schoolā¦
Fucking makes me sick, man. š