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[doma1n]

Hello,
I didn't realise you could get paid so much for having your brain fried..lol
human guinea pig
What do you think of value..
kind regards
john..

 

[retired_member11]

When I look in the mirror I never see a rabbit staring back at me.

Why do these pharma corporate money machines assume a link between the bio physiology of a human and that of a rabbit? I've never understood the clinical principle behind testing drugs developed for humans on animals. What is the point of that Oxford lab if a bunny doesn't react like a human?

I notice the drugs industry has it's PR people (Oxbridge types) working overtime to dampen down the coverage of this story as much as possible. On the BBC ten o'clock news last night there just happpened to be a man on hand for interview who was happy to 'volunteer' that he had been paid x,xxx for participation in a trial...and nothing adverse happened. Did he even say "easy money"?

The domain? Blood money.

 

[domaingenius]

It definately is no laughing matter and my heart goesz out to those 6 people.If you see the look of anguish on this ladies face and read the story it shows how seriously wrong this experiment went. What I would like to ask is WHY does a US Company want to carry out experiments for a German Company in a UK hospital , is it because they consider us mugs and the laws so lax as to be laughable ?. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2087234,00.html

DG

 

[retired_member11]

What I don't really understand is why all six men were given the drug at the same time. Better to stagger it and observe for possible reactions to save at least one or two trialists from the ordeal.

 

[tifosi]

First, these things have to be done in double-blind trials, and so the batch size here is not uncommon or unrealistic. The biopharmaceutical industry is global as well, so no surprise. It may quite as easily been in the US or UK.

The vast majority of the metabolic pathways of the commonly used animals used in the testing or development of pharmecuticals are compatible in terms of their dynamics, and in responses to hormonal and chemical stimulants, the differences are in responsiveness.

That they are tested in these animals first is viable and justified, in my opinion as someone with experience in the area. It may lead in a vast minority of cases to drugs which would have been beneficial to humans being disregarded, or in this case the opposite. But without this the case in the news wouldn't be an exception, and the number of beneficial drugs on the market would be a fraction.

I suggest the next batch of human guinea pigs are the bleeding heart liberal demonstrators camped outside Huntingdon Sciences or the Oxford Uni Research labs.

S

 

[domaingenius]

I suggest the next batch of human guinea pigs are the bleeding heart liberal demonstrators camped outside Huntingdon Sciences or the Oxford Uni Research labs.

S

Definately. I wonder how many are hypocrites by using soap, cosmetics,medicines etc etc that have all been tested on
animals. Do they or their families never use medicines at all ,
ever ?.

DG

 

[retired_member11]

Why test on a bunny though? I would have thought the physiology of the pig was much closer to that of humans.

Have you taken part in trials?

 

[aqls]

I wish them well too.

I also wish they'd stop testing on animals.

-aqls-