Is vivisection effective?
"Work on prevention (the vaccine) was long delayed by the erroneous
conception of the nature of the human disease, based on misleading
experimental models of the disease in monkeys."
Inventor of the polio vaccine, Albert Sabin MD. This statement was
made before the subcommittee of Hospitals and Health Care,
Committee on Veterans Affair's, House of Representatives,
April 26, 1984.
It has been claimed that vivisection has played a crucial role in virtually all medical advances. However, medical historians argue that discoveries in such areas as heart disease, cancer, immunology, anesthesia, and psychiatry were in fact achieved through clinical research, observation of patients, and human autopsy. The effectiveness of vivisection has been doubted for decades. In 1963 scientific studies showed a strong correlation between cigarette smoking and lung cancer. Experimental efforts to produce lung cancer in animals failed, resulting in a doubt on the validity of the the cigarette-lung cancer theory. The failure of animal and human data to agree cast a serious doubt on researchers, who distrusted the more reliable human data. Due to this, health warnings were delayed for years, while thousands of people died of lung cancer.
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