This is just absurd, dreama. Of course human trials are conducted following the animal trials. The animal trials are intended to insure the safety of the medication for human use. The human trials test the effectiveness of the medication for the condition it is designed to treat, once animal trials have determined it to be safe to be introduced into the human body.
You may be comfortable taking a medication that has never been tested for safety nor approved for human use, but I doubt seriously that many people would be comfortable doing so. The purpose of a medication is to cure or treat an illness, not kill someone because it is unapproved as safe for human consumption.
What about experimental surgical procedures? Do you want to be the first living being that the procedure is tried on, or would you prefer that it be perfected before the surgeon cuts into you?[/QUOTE]
Interesting point. I don't know if you saw one of my posts discussing experimentation, but I made a comment supporting animal testing, and it had to do with having an experimental procedure when I was six that saved my life. At the time I had the procedure, there had only been four other children who had undergone the procedure before me. Two had lived, but two had died. I was the fifth child to undergo the procedure in this country and the third child to have survived it. There was also issues with brain damage as well. One of the children that survived came out of surgery severely brain damaged due to lack of oxygen.
What I am describing is a bit different than what you said, but I agree with you completely. I also am extremely grateful for the experimentation that is done. I would be extremely wary of procedures where there was no testing of them on animal models. You just cannot come close to a comparison between data conducted using animals and those using computer models. I would much prefer testing be done on animals.
