NSCI 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Animal Ethics, National Institutes Of Health, Antiscience
15 Jun 2016
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Animal experimentation what does lab research on other animals imply. Harmful: vilates their bodily integrity and freedom of movement deprivational non-therapeutic non-consensual. Azra raza suggested we should take away mouse models. False positive: di species respond di to certain drugs. Nih: animal data is not reliable for human health research over-rely on animal data focus on anthological case, not consequntialist, etc. Why use animals when human beings are more useful? studiy moral obligations towards other animals considered as sentient individuals (vulnerable selves) Nd cures and save human lives? its wrong to conduct harmful and deprivational exp on individuals w/o consent. A sentient animal is a who not a what we are not interested in what the animals feel, we only interested in the bene t they can bring to us. all about controlling and conditioned experiment. Champinzi experiments make ppl realize the problem and use less and less. The number of nonhuman primates being used in research is increasing.
