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Originally Posted by CamilleY
Simple answer: Yes. I'm wildly more important than 1, 100 or even 1000 gerbils. So are my family. If the testing is necessary to the advacement of medical research we all benefit.
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In fact few breakthroughs have been made as a result of animal experimentation - its advocates have overstated its achievements. There has been a catalogue of errors and failures in animal testing, which its advocates gloss over; as many as half the drugs that have been approved in the US and the UK after animal testing have subsequently had to be withdrawn because of harmful side-effects.