Re:Alternatives to Animal Testing Are Finally Taking Off
by ewbrenna on Monday October 19, 2026 @12:17PM
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First off, we should only be making this kind of trade-off (non-human lives for human lives) because it's absolutely necessary.
But even ignoring the ethics concerns, an accurate non-animal model is going to be vastly preferable to a real animal for a lot of stages of research. It's going to be easier to isolate variables, and a lot of research time and resources are taken up by animal models just being real animals.
But even ignoring the ethics concerns, an accurate non-animal model is going to be vastly preferable to a real animal for a lot of stages of research. It's going to be easier to isolate variables, and a lot of research time and resources are taken up by animal models just being real animals.