Shockingly, the lab in which I work has been instrumental in the development (yes, with the help of mice) of a drug to combat leukemia which is currently in clinical trials to see how it does on intestinal tumors where the preliminary results are very promising.
has directly caused many, many humans to die
Could you please cite references? If you're talking about cancer/other terminally ill individuals who're participating in clinical trials I think that you're putting an interesting (and not wholly accurate) spin on that information.
100% of current cancer therapies (ones used in medical institutions anyway) have been tested on mice. 100%.
Perhaps this article would be enlightening. Also, I found this article to be interesting and it presents both sides of the argument (citing Vioxx as a failure of the mouse model system but, honestly, that seems to me to be more of an issue of rushed clinical trials).
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has directly caused many, many humans to die
Could you please cite references? If you're talking about cancer/other terminally ill individuals who're participating in clinical trials I think that you're putting an interesting (and not wholly accurate) spin on that information.
100% of current cancer therapies (ones used in medical institutions anyway) have been tested on mice. 100%.
Perhaps this article would be enlightening. Also, I found this article to be interesting and it presents both sides of the argument (citing Vioxx as a failure of the mouse model system but, honestly, that seems to me to be more of an issue of rushed clinical trials).