At 5:08 PM -0500 2/28/07, Marie Helweg-Larsen wrote:
Similarly, perhaps one day psychologists who learn from animal
models will not rely so heavily on just rats in their studies. Also,
perhaps one day medicine will move away from unrepresentative
samples of volunteers in clinics and hospitals or relying on large
samples of equally unrepresentative groups of people (such as nurses
and physicians).
Marie
Actually, there's much less animal behavioral research being done
now, and proportionately less with rats. Rats have not been the
predominant experimental animal for decades (even Skinner gave up
rats for pigeons in the 1940's).
And, there are many fewer manufacturers of animal experimental
apparatus (operant conditioning chambers, etc) than there were thirty
years ago.
--
A lapsed rat runner
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