We’re delighted that John Mann MP has added his name to EDM 22, holding the continued public funding of invalid laboratory animal models to thorough medical account.
EDM 22 calls for scientists from the vested interests – the animal experimentation community – to agree to debate their medical position in a scientific debate hearing, with conditions endorsed by Britain’s foremost human rights defence barrister Michael Mansfield QC.
The statistics highlighted in EDM 22 are reflected in British Medical Journal‘s Editor’s Choice, published in June last year, titled ‘How Predictive and Productive is Animal Research?‘. This article concluded by quoting from he paper it cited:
“If research conducted on animals continues to be unable to reasonably predict what can be expected in humans, the public’s continuing endorsement and funding of preclinical animal research seems misplaced”.
Current medical science can now explain exactly why such veterinary principles are failing humans. Indeed, pharmaceutical companies also acknowledge the failure of laboratory animal models in their drug development process, and write about this this openly and often in the scientific literature.
We’re supporting ‘Time to Hear the Scientific Evidence‘! Please click on the image below; simply type in your post code to ask your MP to sign EDM 22. Help us support Parliamentarians who are holding the continued funding of misleading laboratory animal models to thorough scientific account:
