Re:Scientists are the real moral crusaders (Score 1)

The thing about testing against just cells is that that you miss out on interactions that one may not anticipate. As a researcher we have drugs which have worked fantastically in the test tube, but don't do anything in a mouse because of the complexity of the overall system. Rats are necessary because it gives a good model of overall what will happen if the mouse is given a drug because it offers the full system not just cells in a tube. As to later comments about using death row inmates, they live too long. The idea of a mouse model is you can observe there entire life within a couple years, think most research mice live 3 years. Which is better than having to observe a actual human over its entire life of 60-70 years on average. I do agree that us scientists seem generally more aware of the problems facing humanity and many do make efforts towards this.