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- From: Rosemary Waigh <rwaigh@zooid.guild.org>
- Subject: Re: research and medicine
- Reply-To: rwaigh@zooid.UUCP (Rosemary Waigh)
- Organization: The Zoo of Ids
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 15:45:08 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.154508.1376@zooid.guild.org>
- References: <1992Nov16.015056.24124@samba.oit.unc.edu> <1992Nov17.193707.6535@zooid.guild.org> <1992Nov18.201612.5344@samba.oit.unc.edu> <1992Nov22.165547.29817@bmerh85.bnr.ca>
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- In article <1992Nov22.165547.29817@bmerh85.bnr.ca> myhui@bnr.ca (Michael Hui) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov18.201612.5344@samba.oit.unc.edu> itsmine@med.unc.edu (Greg Popken) writes:
- >>In article <1992Nov17.193707.6535@zooid.guild.org> rwaigh@zooid.UUCP (Rosemary Waigh) writes:
- >>> (The researcher can't be *certain* that the results obtained
- >>>in non-human animals will apply to humans anyway, can (s)he?)
- >>No your right nothing in science is certain. If we already know how
- >>things will turn out we wouldn't need to do the research.
- >
- >There are two separate questions here:
- >
- >1. How does the non-human animal respond to the treatment. No, science cannot
- > predict this completely, hence the need for the experiment.
- >
- >2. Whatever the result, how well does it correlate to an experiment
- > done with humans, which, of course, has never been done so far.
- >
- >You give the answer to [1]. Rosemary Waigh asked question [2].
- >
-
- Yes, this is what I meant. It's a good thing you replied, Michael, because
- my site was doing maintenance this weekend and a number of articles, including
- Greg's, were lost before I could read them.
- >
- >>But, in the vast majority of cases the information gathered from
- >>animals studies is applicable to humans.
- >
- Can you cite some references Greg? Approximate percentages for various
- models (I know there are a huge number of models with varying degrees of
- accuracy and don't expect you to cite figures for everything, but a few
- representative examples would be nice.)
- Dr. Robert Sharpe, in _The_Cruel_Deception_, cites a study by D. Salsburg,
- in _Fundamental_&_Applied_Toxicology_, 63-67, volume 3, 1983, which states
- "...the lifetime feeding study in mice and rats appears to have less than a 50
- per cent probability of finding known human carcinogens."
-
- >Often times, using voluntary human subjects can give you far faster and
- Well, I don't know about faster, humans do have a long lifespan compared
- to the kinds of non-human animals used in reseach.
-
-
- >far more accurate results. Humans can talk to you. And you remove the
- >uncertainty in question [2] above, resulting in far faster
- >certification of new drugs and treatments. Now with Bill Clinton as
- >President, let's hope he repeals the executive order banning use of
- >fetal tissue for research.
-
- >--
- >Michael MY Hui ~{╨φ├≈╢≈~} myhui@bnr.ca Ottawa Canada
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