X-Message-Number: 8893
From: Stephen Bogner <>
Subject:  Why use humans for research instead of animals?
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 15:02:36 -0700

I may have missed the premise of the "Donate Bodies for Research" thread. 
 Why are dead and dying human subjects preferred over animal models for 
research?  Surely the state of research is not so far advanced that the 
subtle difference between an animal model and a human model has become an 
issue.

The moral issue, not to mention hypocrisy, of "killing off" frozen test 
subjects (who - if we believe our own rhetoric - have a non-zero potential 
for reanimation) would make me uncomfortable, to say the least.  I am not 
often roused to moral indignation, but this is one concept that I find 
alarming and shocking.

Steve.

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