Study Confirms Vivisection Is Bad Science

Study Confirms Vivisection Is Bad Science

A recent study published on 15 December in the prestigious "British medical journal" provides further confirmation that vivisection is not just ethically abhorrent but is scientifically flawed, says National Anti-vivisection Campaign chair Dr. Michael Morris. The study, by Pablo Perel and others, compared systematic reviews of animal experiments and clinical human trials of the same treatment. In all 6 comparisons, the results from the clinical trials were different from those gained by animal data, showing how relying on animal "models" to predict human responses to treatment is a hit and miss affair.

The authors also found that the quality of animal experimentation was "poor", with vivisectionists failing to comply with basic scientific procedures such as random allocation of animals to each group and blinded assessment of the outcome.

"This is just the latest in a series of studies in high class peer reviewed journals showing again and again on both theoretical and experimental grounds that vivisection is shonky science, due to the inherent differences at the cellular and molecular level between humans and other species", says Dr. Morris. "For both ethical and scientific reasons, it is time that this archaic and barbaric practice is discontinued".

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