Lab Monkeys and drug testing

[John Thornton]

Humans are used. When pharmaceutical companies apply for an Investigational
New Drug Application it is automatically effective in 30 days unless the FDA
disapproves. You better hope someone at FDA is reading that shit carefully.
In Phase 1 clinical trials, healthy subjects (the poor) are paid a small sum
to test drugs. 80% of all drugs fail to make it past Phase 1, so the odds
are as a Phase 1 subject you will be taking a substance that the FDA will
not approve as safe for human consumption!
John Thornton

From: "ravi" <gadfly at exitleft.org>
To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 12:24 PM
Subject: Re: UFOs and Lab Monkeys


> > 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
>