• AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    In the long run, humans whose biologies most closely resemble rats will have better medical outcomes and therefore greater evolutionary fitness.

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    6 months ago

    My thought was they will always be in the frontiers of medicine since they are used as experiments. Results from rat experiments does not usually equate to be successful to humans. Not saying we should forgo ethics and do human experiments right away, just an observation.

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      6 months ago

      Don’t forget mice. Those fuckers get all the treatments for cancer. Selfish bastards.

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      The experiments are often done with modified rats (genetically or otherwise) to be closer to humans or they are in situations they would normally never get in (obesity or cancer…)

      Makes it even more questionable if it’s really worth it to do all this to have results that still not apply to humans. There is research for experiments that do not involve animals