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156 x 234 x 32mm
How Genetics and Evolution Reveal Why Medical Research on Animals Harms Humans.
There is a great divide between species that makes extrapolation of biochemical research from one group to another utterly invalid.
In their previous book, 'Sacred Cows And Golden Geese: The Human Cost Of Experiments On Animals', the Greeks showed how an amorphous but insidious network of drug manufacturers, researchers and even cage-manufacturers - among others benefiting from 'white-coat welfare' - have perpetuated animal research in spite of its total unpredictability when applied to humans. (Cancer in mice, for example, has long been cured and chimps live long and relatively healthy lives with AIDS.) In doing so, the Greeks blew the lid off the 'specious science' we have been culturally conditioned to accept.
This persuasive book takes these stunning revelations one step further. In accessible language, it provides the scientific underpinning for the Greeks' philosophy of 'do no harm to any animal, human or not,' by examining paediatrics, diseases of the brain, new surgical techniques, in vitro research, the Human Genome and Proteome Projects, an array of scientific and technological breakthroughs, and much more.
