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1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Oct-2018 08:21:50 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

   You get the impression that medical scientists and surgeons aren't very warm people. Scientists and doctors employed by the Nazis had few qualms about the horrible experiments they performed on humans, and cases of animals suffering for science routinely surface in the media. I realise that alternatives to animal testing don't exist in certain cases, but I can't help but find it unpleasant.

   1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Oct-2018 08:25:20 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

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      Take for instance that experiment where they grew human ears on the backs of lab rats, or the ones where they implanted brain probes to control where the rats walked. They're like horror stories taken out of Frankenstein.

      1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Oct-2018 08:27:08 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

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         There's this certain lack of boundaries that scientists seem to have. What kind of ethical board would approve of those experiments? They probably concluded that the animals wouldn't suffer, but it's not like the animals themselves were asked...