FW: New announcement: Study confirms that vivisection is bad science

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Sunday, February 11, 2007 7:14 AM

New announcement: Study confirms that vivisection is bad

science

 

 

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0701/S00032.htm

 

Study Confirms Vivisection Is Bad Science

Tuesday, 16 January 2007, 1:14 pm

 

Press Release: National Anti Vivisection Campaign

 

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 " .

 

ENDS