The major problem with testing drugs on humans from the beginning is that in practice you can't get enough people together to form a statistically relevant result who will submit to the 1/2 a lifetime's worth of standardised conditions and high likelihood of serious adverse outcome. People just won't comply with that.
The obvious ways to convince people to put up with this might be to have some kind of financial reward system, or to make the "volunteering" procedure mandatory for certain groups. Unfortunately, both of these options are likely to be open to corruption, manipulation and tend to be punitive in some way (this is why you cannot offer people money to become organ donors, for instance).Its far more likely (and is been increasingly the case) that the animal phase of testing will be largely replaced by sophisticated cell and tissue culture techniques.
I don't get upset with people who hold a different point of view to me whatsoever, and I can totally see why some people hold them. I do get upset with people who want to intimidate or manipulate me into having a different one though! I've been called evil (and other things) by animal rights campaigners before, merely for explaining politely that a lot of their information was outdated, misrepresented or just plain fabricated. Its a bit upsetting that some vocal anti-vivisectionists who would normally hold a more reasoned viewpoint have pretty much been taken in by lies put about by extremists. I guess that is my main motivation for this. Stating your opinion is one thing, but pressurising others to share it by unethical means is another.
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The obvious ways to convince people to put up with this might be to have some kind of financial reward system, or to make the "volunteering" procedure mandatory for certain groups. Unfortunately, both of these options are likely to be open to corruption, manipulation and tend to be punitive in some way (this is why you cannot offer people money to become organ donors, for instance).Its far more likely (and is been increasingly the case) that the animal phase of testing will be largely replaced by sophisticated cell and tissue culture techniques.
I don't get upset with people who hold a different point of view to me whatsoever, and I can totally see why some people hold them. I do get upset with people who want to intimidate or manipulate me into having a different one though! I've been called evil (and other things) by animal rights campaigners before, merely for explaining politely that a lot of their information was outdated, misrepresented or just plain fabricated. Its a bit upsetting that some vocal anti-vivisectionists who would normally hold a more reasoned viewpoint have pretty much been taken in by lies put about by extremists. I guess that is my main motivation for this. Stating your opinion is one thing, but pressurising others to share it by unethical means is another.