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re: Why are mice always the subject to experiments?
Posted on 12/9/21 at 2:34 pm to deeprig9
Posted on 12/9/21 at 2:34 pm to deeprig9
quote:But hasn't Brett Weinstein argued that much of our supposed understanding of medical science due to these mice experiments might be highly tainted by this homogeneity you refer to? (i.e. they all came from the exact same breeder in Maine or something like that)
all of the above and also there are special breeds of them where they are basically all clones and you can get much better baselines in studies and not have to account for genetic diversity and whatnot.
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Posted on 12/10/21 at 12:07 pm to Big Scrub TX
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But hasn't Brett Weinstein argued that much of our supposed understanding of medical science due to these mice experiments might be highly tainted by this homogeneity you refer to? (i.e. they all came from the exact same breeder in Maine or something like that
That's why you don't just jump from mice to human trials. You move up to beagles, pigs, and then chimps before people.
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