A Defense of Animal Research

At Terra Sigillata, a blogger who goes by the pseudonym "Abel Pharmboy" defends the need for animal research after a recent paper criticized universities and other organizations that had increased their use of such research over the past several years. "None of my in vitro work will ever make it to human clinical trials unless animal studies are done," Pharmboy writes. "No matter how elegant the hypothesis or wizardry in the design of a drug molecule, the ultimate question from colleagues is, 'But does it work in an intact biological system (an animal)?'"