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And what if the outcome is that nothing is achieved or learned. Or that they learned less than they would have with less sloppy practices. Or that their sloppier than average practices on animals translate to sloppier than average practices on humans and result in needlessly killing humans during testing trials and still achieving nothing.

Part of the reason we expect thorough and careful processes on animals is because it is practice. If you screw up during practice what hope do you have during the real thing. Careful animals trials increase the speed of developing medical interventions safe enough for human use. They are not just boneheaded red tape meant to slow down “radical thinkers”.

That is not to say that the current processes and methodologies are perfect, there is almost certainly unnecessary bureaucracy, but the right standard, the one that maximizes the rate of progress, is much closer to what we have than what the “move fast and break things” crowd wants.