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15399169 No.15399169 [Reply] [Original]

>Every experimental medical system or drug uses rats for testing
>"It works! Rats don't have chronic pain/cancer/neurological damage!"
>Use it on humans
>No effect whatsoever
Why haven't we instead made experiments on primates since they are genetically the closest to us? All this effort of using rats as lab experiments and 99% of the times means jack shit.

>> No.15399427

>>15399169

>Why haven't we instead made experiments on primates since they are genetically the closest to us?

Because "close" isn't even close in terms of a very specific pharmacological reaction, where even individuals of the same species would show wildly different reactions (which we conveniently bury under statistics and marketing talk). Primates would be equally useless as rats but at least rats are much cheaper.

>> No.15399431

>>15399169
>>15399427
Have either of you ever tried using Google?