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Quote by: Captain Chaos  Many drugs never make it to human testing because they prove dangerous in animals. |
And drugs which have made it through animal testing have proven dangerous to humans. Do you just say "tough luck" to those who were injured in those cases? Rather callous for those who say they care about human life to just pull out the ledger and say, "Look here, you 100 children and parents of those who have suffered birth defects from our drugs are to just suck it up because we learned something from your injuries that are going to help 1,000 other kids."
I think there is a little more to the dignity of life in general than just that.
Micro dosing, culture testing, computer modeling are just a few which show great promise and may be the safer route all the way around than animal testing -- for in those cases that drugs are being tested in very small doses on exactly the target species it is being designed for.