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A PETA psychologist claims science can be done without animals models - they're wrong

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Even one of the ideological ancestors of Woke politics in the USSR didn't strive to corrupt or undermine science and science administration this pervasively.[1][2] Especially since the postmodern animus [sans Marx] against Western thought orientation, conventions, standards, and methods was neither an influence yet nor fully born. [Grievances and bitterness toward the post-medieval West, that is, in the course of the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment.]
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https://www.science20.com/content/a_peta...eyre_wrong

EXCERPTS: With the departure of NIH legend Dr. Francis Collins, political allies are calling on President Biden to appoint a non-scientist to run that National Institutes of Health. Perhaps someone like their resident psychologist, Katherine Roe, PhD, who believes that animals are little people.

[...] The number of drugs or medical devices that can go to human clinical trials without an animal model is zero. For good reason. Computer simulations are not magic, despite what PETA now claims. Instead, animal models are necessary to exclude a positive or negative effect. If a product can survive animal studies, then it is considered for human clinical trials. Animal models can never prove something is harmful to humans, nor can they prove a benefit. But they are vital to the process.

[...] Dr. Collins will be difficult to replace, but the worst thing for American science would be to replace him with someone who would make NIH funding a football kicked around by activists... (MORE - missing details)

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[1] Anna Krylov: "I noted that certain names and ideas are now forbidden within academia for ideological reasons, just as had been the case in my youth." https://quillette.com/2021/12/18/scienti...sciplines/

[2] (New Left) "In the 1950s and 1960s, when the domestic 'red scare' and international Cold War shattered the [communist] party’s vitality, Jewish women formerly active in the CP or its affiliates turned to new movements and carried revolutionary traditions into rising struggles against racism, sexism, and imperialism." https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/com...ted-states
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