The use of animals for drug testing and disease research is flawed science and should be abandoned, the leader of an advocacy group says.
“It’s like using a canoe to cross the Pacific Ocean. Yes, it was done at one time, but today we use airplanes,” said Dr. Ray Greek, president of Americans for Medical Advancement and a retired anesthesiologist and expert in pain management living in California. “Today we are studying humans at the level where the differences between species outweigh the similarities.”
Greek debated with UW animal researcher Eric Sandgren on the merits of using animals in scientific research before a crowd of about 175 at the Wisconsin Historical Society building Wednesday night.