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Saying flatly "this could never work" is impolite, arrogant, and possibly wrong. "I don't see how this could ever work" suffers from none of these failings.


It could never work (to make animal research obsolete) because there is no human substitute for these: http://www.understandinganimalresearch.org.uk/how/areas-of-r...

And unless it becomes ethically acceptable to genetically modify human embyros for testing rather than mouse embyros, then this is not going to change.

This isn't arrogance or impoliteness, it's just how it is.


Even if animal testing is not made obsolete but is reduced by a large factor, that's huge progress.




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