Title
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Source
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Category
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| 'The animal testing regime... is utterly futile' |
Professor Sir Michael Rawlins |
Misquotation |
| "the work on [polio] prevention was long delayed by... misleading experimental models of the disease in monkeys" |
Albert Sabin |
Misquotation |
| "experiments on animals have contributed greatly to scientific advances" |
House of Lords Select Committee |
Positive |
| "certain animal models have played significant roles in the study of particular diseases" |
Nuffield Council on Bioethics 2005 |
Positive |
| "Producing a new medicine is a lengthy and complex process... Tests on animals play a vital role" |
Nuffield Council on Bioethics 2005 |
Positive |
| "genetically normal and GM animals [have] contributed significantly to biomedical understanding" |
Nuffield Council on Bioethics 2005 |
Positive |
| "An absolute position that all animal experiments are scientifically invalid is untenable" |
Animal Procedures Committee 2003 |
Positive |
| "Research on animals has contributed to almost every medical advance of the last century." |
Department of Health 2001 |
Positive |
| "until suitable alternatives are found, this vital work should continue so that hundreds of millions more lives can be saved in the future" |
Caroline Flint |
Positive |
| "Without animal testing, there will be no new drugs for new or hard-to-treat diseases..." |
The Lancet 2004 |
Positive |
| "It would be perverse to deny that curative treatments and diagnostic advances owe their emergence to animal experiments" |
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 2002 |
Positive |
| 'properly controlled medical research involving animals... will prove relavent to increasing knowledge of human health in the future" |
The Medical Research Council 1993 |
Positive |
| "Research using animals has made an important contribution to advances in medicine and surgery..." |
The Wellcome Trust |
Positive |
| "Animal experiments have been vital to the discovery and development of many advances in physiology and medicine" |
Seriously Ill for Medical Research |
Positive |
| "...the discovery and development of these and the other major anti-asthmatic drugs would not have been possible without animal research" |
Dr David Jack |
Positive |
| "Animal experimentation has been essential to the development of all cardiac surgery, transplantation surgery, joint replacements and all vacciations." |
Joseph E Murray |
Positive |
| "Animal research and testing has played a part in almost every medical breakthrough of the last century. It has saved hundreds of millions of lives worldwide..." |
Joan Ryan |
Positive |
| "...carefully controlled and planned animal experiments have made a vital contribution to the discovery and utility of the well-known classes of antibiotics" |
Keith Mansford |
Positive |
| "There is no way that the heart-lung machine coule have been devised and developed other than through studies on living creatures" |
Professor Sir Norman Browse |
Positive |
| "The recent discovery of highly specific antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications would not have been possible without the use of animal models" |
Dr Herbert Pardes |
Positive |
| "...animal research is essential to tackling major 21st century health problems such as cancer and heart disease. Without the use of animals it would be impossible, in many cases, to develop drugs or any sort of medical treatment." |
Professor Sir George Radda |
Positive |
| "...to continue to be one of the world centres for scientific research, we have to stand up and be counted in support of researchers, go on marches and demonstrations, and back even tougher action by the police and the courts against these terrorists." |
Jack Straw |
Positive |
| "There needs to be clearer communication for the public avout how valuable it [animal testing] is. |
Lord Robert Winston |
Positive |
| "...a basis for looking to the future, both in terms of where primates may continue to be necessary and where alternatives may replace their use" |
Professor John Bell |
Positive |
| "As science rapidly develops it is important that the case for using non-human primates in biomedical research is continually evaluated." |
Professor David Read |
Positive |
| "We remain of the view that in many areas of research we are still reliant on primates to achieve our goals for improving human health" |
Professor Colin Blakemore |
Positive |
| 'Although rare, the use of primates in medical research and testing is invaluable, as an essential aspect of work wihch provides the best hope for breakthroughs in important areas..." |
Sir David King |
Positive |
| "Research using non-human primates has played a major role in improving human and animal health, and this continues to be the case" |
Dr Mark Walport |
Positive |
| "...if it comes to a choice between regulated studies on a few animals and a treatment for an incurable disease... most people reluctantly make the same choice." |
Professor Chris Higgins |
Positive |
| "Research using animals is essential to produce sufficient evidence efficacy and safety before proceeding to trials involving humans" |
British Medical Association |
Positive |
| "The use of animals in medical research and safety testing is a vital part of the quest to improve human health." |
The Lancet 2004 |
Positive |
| "Animal research has lead to advanaces in the treatment of many conditions... Where there is no alternative available, we will continue to ensure that the balance between animal welfare and scientific advancement is maintained." |
Andy Burnham |
Positive |
| "With primate research able to make real contibutions to alleciating devastating conditions like Parkinson's disease and HIV/AIDS, the harmful consequences that could result from abandoning this work are clear" |
Dr Sophie Petit-Zeman |
Positive |
| "Biomedial science has not yet reached the stage where there are adequate replacements for the use of non-human primates in research" |
UK Bioscience Federation |
Positive |
| "...with the current scientific knowledge, not enough alternative methods are yet available to replace the use of non-human primates" |
European Commission |
Positive |
| "[A primate ban] would force us to abandon research that could lead to treatments for Alzheimer's, motor neruone disease, strokes and many other illnesses" |
Professor Tipu Aziz |
Positive |
| "...the few experiments we carry out on primates have the potential to alleviate a vast amount of human suffering" |
Roger Morris |
Positive |
| "Primate models are only used when animals such as rats and mice cannot be used" |
Roger Lemon |
Positive |
| "[monkeys] are used only when no other species and no alternatice approach can provide the answers to questions about such conditions as Alzhemers, stroke, Parkinson's, spinal injury, hormone disorders, and vaccines for HIV" |
Professor Colin Blakemore |
Positive |
| "Studies using non-human primates are undertaken alongside other animal models and observational and intervational research using humans and in vitro approaches." |
The European Academies Science Advisory Council (EASAC) |
Positive |
| "There are some answers which are very difficult to do on anything other than a primate" |
Bob Millar |
Positive |
| "It is hard to imagine how brain prosthetics and brain-machine interfaces, which are tantalizingly close to realization, could be properly developed without the support of fundamental primate studies." |
Nature Editorial 20/11/08 |
Positive |
| "[knockout mice] truly provided a revolution in mammalian biology," |
Raju Kucherlapati |
Positive |
| "Current proposals to restrict non-human primate research in the EU could prevent... work which could have outcomes of immense benefit to human health." |
Andrew McMichael |
Positive |
| "...we must support and protect individuals and companies engaged in life saving medical research" |
Tony Blair |
Positive |
| "The finding demonstrates how critically important studies in monkeys are to the understanding of HIV infection...Current proposals to restrict non-human primate research in the EU could prevent this type of work..." |
Andrew McMichael |
Positive |
| 'Animal tests...less predicitve than tossing a coin.' |
Kathy Archibald |
Negative |
| 'I was very much afraid. Before this, we had been doing this work only on pigs.' |
Paolo Macchiarini |
positive |
| "The idea, as I understand it, is that fundamental truths are revealed in laboratory experiments on lower animals and are then applied to the problems of the sick patient... It is plain nonsense." |
Sir George Pickering |
Negative |
| "On the basis of probability theory we would have been better off tossing a coin." |
Dr David Salsburg |
Negative |
| "Animal research saves lives, but wherever possible alternatives should be used," |
Lord Sainsbury |
Positive |
