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Specious Science - How Genetics and Evolution Reveal Why Medical Research on Animals Harms Humans (Hardcover)
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Specious Science - How Genetics and Evolution Reveal Why Medical Research on Animals Harms Humans (Hardcover)
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The authors of this book argue that there is a great divide between
species that makes extrapolation of biochemical research from one
group to another utterly invalid. In their previous book, "Sacred
Cows and Golden Geese: The Human Cost of Experiments on Animals",
the Greeks showed how an amorphous but insidious network of drug
manufacturers, researchers dependent on government grants to earn
their living, even cage-manufacurers - among others benefiting from
"white-coat welfare" - have perpetuated animal research in spite of
its total unpredictability when applied to humans. (Cancer in mice,
for example, has long been cured. Chimps live long and relatively
healthy lives with AIDS. There is no animal form of Alzheimer's
disease.) In doing so, the Greeks aimed to blow the lid off the
"specious science" we have been culturally conditioned to accept.
Taking these revelations one step further, this book uses
accessible language to provide the scientific underpinning for the
Greeks' philosophy of "do no harm to any animal, human or not," by
examining paediatrics, diseases of the brain, new surgical
techniques, in vitro research, the Human Genome and Proteome
Projects, an array of scien
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