Animal Testing - Page 3

Sweetpea · 12-08-2006, 03:25 PM

Animal testing. Hmm. Hard one for me, working in science. I disagree for cosmetic testing totally, for drugs, an evil necessity.

skinny · 12-16-2006, 11:25 PM

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Originally Posted by The Relic

I'd add the interesting fact that the classic lab animal, the guinea pig, is killed in moments by the administration of...wait for it....aspirin. Yes, human biology is radically different from all except the highre primates, so the value of testing on animals is questionable to say the least. Testing on human subjects is the only sure way of finding out whether a given drug or technique is valuable or

Fucking mong argument....animals are selected specificaly for their relevance to the human bodies workings.

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So why do it? Firstly scientists are used to it. Testing on animals being considered classic lab technique, it's a difficult habit to break, especially as human subjects are hard to find.

fucking shite....humans are a immediate test scenario with their concent.

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Secondly, it's because the lack of value of testing on animals is an open secret that most people cannot accept: they think that if scientists do it, it must be necessary.

fucking shite once again...every medical thingy magig has been tested on animals you wierdo''' tell me i'm wrong, or prove me wrong you idiot...and you are one clever cunt.

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Thirdly, and perhaps most importantly, it's so that when things go wrong, as they did with thalidomide for example, the companies involved can stand up in court and say, "But your honour, here are records which show we killed thousands of lab animals to prove that this was safe, so you can see that we took every possible precaution..."

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I would like to see where the quotation marrks come from you fucking prick. Although there might have been some serious fuck ups you knob head. look back and you WILL find your family ate meat you fucking dickhead and some of your families lives may have been saved by rat shit you fucking prick.

skinny · 12-16-2006, 11:29 PM

Can i just put a side note on this.....i thought, think that Relic is one clever mother fucker but on this subject he is one weird mong.

skinny · 12-17-2006, 09:15 AM

Whoops! drunk again. Quite a lot of unnecessary swear words about there but i take none of them back.

skinny · 03-11-2007, 01:24 AM

Quite an interesting debate about animal testing. Scroll down to the bottom of the page.

BBC NEWS | Programmes | Newsnight

It hasn't changed my opinion, but interesting none the less.

Sweetpea · 03-11-2007, 05:19 PM

Can't find anything to do with animal testing.

skinny · 03-11-2007, 05:24 PM

If the link works for you it is in the extreme bottom left hand corner with a picture of some bunny wabbits.

I've just tried it and it worked for me, but hey ho....

Sweetpea · 03-11-2007, 05:38 PM

Nope, there ain't

skinny · 03-11-2007, 05:47 PM

My apologies, it seAms to have been removed and swapped for some thing to do with Mcdonalds since i tried it a few minutes ago.

Here it is in the debate section near the top.

BBC NEWS | Programmes | Newsnight | Debates