Animal/Insect testing is an interesting and necessary situation, although I think it would be wrong to say state its ethicality; argue how you may, but science is advanced on the testing of hypothesis - essentially examining the unknown, and since we cannot know the outcome, we cannot make a purely rational decision on the benefits of an experiment, only the possibility of its relative merit. Many people don't care to know the types of experiments done to produce insulin, but considering the advancing epidemic of diabetes across many countries the question of ethicality becomes blurry at best and commonly disregarded as moot.
My degree is Biomedical Sciences so I do understand the role of medical testing but the are other possibilities and there are ethical complications that generally seem to be circumvented by saying "it's not a higher animal" like that makes it ok.
Animals do deserve more respect whether there are a few hundred billion of them or not.
Have to agree with Ethan. In fact, I prefer the insect research over mammal research. Monkeys, rabbits, pigs, dogs and ferrets are widely used in medical research. Usually because they are analogous to humans in certain ways.
For those who are upset about this type of research...
How do you think all medical testing is done? Would you prefer to do this research on humans first? This type of of research has applications for humans. Maybe to help those with Huntington's disease or Tourette syndrome control muscle spasms by monitoring abnormal spikes of electric pulses. Maybe to help those that are paralyzed to actually walk with their own legs by bridging the gap from a broken spinal cord? If this kind of testing was not done, we'd still be in the dark ages of medical science.
There's something quite unutterably sad about this..........
This site, and this subject, is arguably human inovation at it's best,...but this reminds me that humanbeings are basically evil and will always be doomed to missuse what they invent and discover......
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Animals do deserve more respect whether there are a few hundred billion of them or not.
That reminds me to put out the bug zapper, roach motels and mouse traps.
I think one of my buddies ate one of those on a dare when we were kids.
Could have been slight of hand.
The scientific process is not always a palatable process.
Interestingly, I probably would defer showing my 6 year old that video, but if that moth were in our house I am sure he would step on it.
How do you think all medical testing is done? Would you prefer to do this research on humans first? This type of of research has applications for humans. Maybe to help those with Huntington's disease or Tourette syndrome control muscle spasms by monitoring abnormal spikes of electric pulses. Maybe to help those that are paralyzed to actually walk with their own legs by bridging the gap from a broken spinal cord? If this kind of testing was not done, we'd still be in the dark ages of medical science.
There's something quite unutterably sad about this..........
This site, and this subject, is arguably human inovation at it's best,...but this reminds me that humanbeings are basically evil and will always be doomed to missuse what they invent and discover......
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