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Article by Aysha Akhtar

We were pleased to find the scholarly article below that demonstrates that “…a growing body of scientific literature…raises important concerns about [animal research and the] reliability and predictive value of human outcomes and for understanding human physiology….[It] also shows how animal experimentation often significantly harms humans through misleading safety studies, potential abandonment of effective therapeutics, and direction of resources away from more effective testing methods.”

From Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4594046/