Criticizing animal experimentation, at my peril

Criticizing animal experimentation, at my peril.

Initiatives leading to even modest reduction in animal use at major U.S. universities are likely to continue to face strong opposition. At least, that's the conclusion the author draws from his efforts at Northwestern University. In fact, despite a growing body of evidence that animal-based research is flawed at best and misleading or un-scientific at worst its use is growing at Northwestern an...

A CRITICAL LOOK ANIMAL AT EXPERIMENTATION A Critical Look at Animal Experimentation

Criticizing reporting standards fails to improve quality in animal research

We agree with Bara and Joffe that there is a need for improvement of reporting quality in animal research (AR) [1]. Presenting details on both methods used and potential cofounders during AR is not only important to reproduce results, and to ensure animal welfare (AW) and public support, it is a duty when animals are compromised, stressed or sacrificed to understand diseases or to identify trea...

Refinement) to Animal Experimentation

341 t4 Workshop Report* A Framework Program for the Teaching of Alternative Methods (Replacement, Reduction, Refinement) to Animal Experimentation Mardas Daneshian 1, Mohammad A. Akbarsha 2, Bas Blaauboer 3, Francesca Caloni 4, Pierre Cosson 5, Rodger Curren 6, Alan Goldberg 7, Franz Gruber 8, Frauke Ohl 9, Walter Pfaller 10, Jan van der Valk 11, Pilar Vinardell , Joanne Zurlo , Thomas Hartung ...

Alternatives to Animal Experimentation

This special issue of ALTEX is publicising what the 3R Research Foundation has achieved in the past and what projects are currently underway. This special issue is intended to improve awareness of the projects funded by the Foundation and to provide a training tool. The first section includes updated descriptions of 20 projects from the past ten years. These projects, involving basic research, ...