Animal Research

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by failing to predict any toxic effect on drugs. The majority
of animals in laboratories are used for genetic manipulation, surgical intervention or injection of
foreign substances. Researchers produce solutions from these animal "models" and are adapting
them to human conditions. Unfortunately, these animal "models" can't always be connected with the
human body thus creating problems. Many times, researchers induce strokes on animals in order to
test certain methods for curing. The downfall of this procedure is that a healthy animal that
experiences a sudden stroke does not undergo the slowly progressive arterial damage that usually
plays a crucial role in human strokes. In another illustration of the inaccuracy of animal research,
scientists in the 1960s deduced from many animal experiments that inhaled tobacco smoke did not
cause lung cancer. For many years afterward, the tobacco industry was able to use these studies to
delay government warnings and to discourage ...

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