The evidence is overwhelming that data from experiments on animals can't be reliably applied to humans. The NIH itself acknowledges that 95 percent of drugs that test safe and effective in animals fail in humans.
PETA: ‘The National Institutes of Health (NIH) — the largest funder of animal experimentation worldwide — announced that it’s planning to launch “funding opportunities to support centralized infrastructure for marmoset research.” A report on this cruel boondoggle — which will be funded using our tax dollars—states, “Although details are hazy, the funding might bring in new marmosets, expand or establish breeding colonies, or advance transgenic projects.” In those “transgenic projects,” experimenters implant genetically manipulated embryos into female marmosets in order to produce babies who are born with disease-like symptoms or impairments… By ramping up funding to increase the supply of marmosets for laboratories, NIH is doubling down on a failed enterprise.
In addition to its transparent cruelty, the use of animals in experimentation—including on chimpanzees, our closest living relatives—has proved an unqualified failure. The evidence is overwhelming that data from experiments on animals can’t be reliably applied to humans. For example, NIH itself acknowledges that 95 percent of drugs that test safe and effective in animals fail in humans. This is because they don’t work or are dangerous. And a review in the prestigious medical journal The BMJ reported that more than 90 percent of “the most promising findings from animal research” fail to lead to human treatments’. SOURCE…
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