UFOs and Lab Monkeys

[Carl Remick]

>>Most Americans, about 59 percent, were comfortable
>>with using mice in laboratory experiments, but
>>opinions shifted dramatically when the question was
>>using dogs or chimpanzees in the scientific research
>>instead of mice. About 53 percent of those surveyed
>>disagreed with allowing scientists to experiment with
>>dogs or chimps in medical research.
>
>
>how about using humans?
>
>	--ravi

[They already do.  E.g., from today's NY Times:]

Study Finds New Drugs May Carry Extra Hazards

By Denise Grady

Serious adverse effects from drugs often do not show up until after the 
drugs are marketed, researchers report today in an article that urges 
doctors to avoid prescribing new medicines if older, better-known ones are 
available.

The article, in The Journal of the American Medical Association, reviews 548 
drugs that the Food and Drug Administration approved from 1975 to 1999. 
Sixteen, or 2.9 percent, were withdrawn because they turned out to be 
unsafe, and 45, or 8.2 percent, had to have warnings in black boxes added to 
their labels to alert doctors and patients to potentially dangerous 
reactions like heart, liver and blood disorders.

[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/01/health/01DRUG.html]

Carl

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