What using animals for scientific research taught me about myself
By Justin Chen--a must read article. STAT
When I looked for the deeper meaning of existence, I found that I was too skeptical for heaven and hell, for deities and spirits. Sometimes, I thought about astrophysics — roiling energy, dark matter, the multiple dimensions of an expanding universe — but it was all too vast and distant. The closest I ever got to a mystical experience was working with animals as a molecular biologist.
As a biologist, I performed experiments on flatworms, sea urchins, zebrafish, frogs, opossums, and mice. These studies required the careful administration of life and death: I merged sperm with eggs and observed early embryos when they were just three layers of tissues flattened together. At certain times, I preserved animals in formaldehyde and bathed them in chemicals that turned their bodies transparent.
In the lab, life and death were demythologized. Instead of some immense, cosmic force, they shrank into something tangible that could be contained in a Petri dish or studied under a microscope...
Science in migraine is 90% mouse/rat and 10% human, making migraine a mouse-human chimerical disorder.
If cortical spreading depression is irrelevant to migraine, as is highly likely (Gupta, 2005, 2009, 2018), can we ethically/morally justify the mindless sacrifice of rodents/mammals for so-called scientific purpose?
Dear,
Hearing the inner voice in doing science, I believe that, it is a kind of evolution which makes human a human. By the means that correlating things with each other to make deeper (more close to reality) understanding leads to bigger questions (like dark matter) and if we could eliminate animals which their implementation into the lab have been made huge progress, then we would able to live in a condition which there would feel no necessity towards animal sacrifice.
Doing science for the sake of finding the better answers and preferable alternatives, yet it is not possible unfortunately.
The mouse saved my son and the pig my aunt so I express my gratitude to these animals.
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