No suggestions, but that’s mostly because I don’t think there’s much evidence that it is all that useful to begin with. I’m not saying nothing “useful” to humans has ever been gained from it but I think it’s usefulness is often extremely overestimated.

Oh I’m sure it happens, considering the pressure out there for institutes to be leading the way with research. Although the lab vet at my institute is scary, and I could not imagine him bending the rules at all. Ugh the pressure for funding and competition for publications is exactly why I really don’t want to do a…

To add to this, we actually know so much these days that we can do a lot of modelling on computers and even “organs-on-a-chip” which you can grow cells on with their own little environments to test drugs on! The future is coming!

I don’t see why dogs are a saddest thing to try on, but I’m firmly in favor of a more integrated view of animals. Thanks for the insider view. It seems somehow suprising to go from rodent to human, just for the possible non homogeneous effects of body weight and size. Like, you don’t just divide doses from adult to…

Stop me if you’ve read this one before.

“Is that ultimately in the public health interest?” asked Frankie Trull, president of the Foundation for Biomedical Research.

Seared into memory.

I think there may be a lot less evidence supporting the usefulness of animal testing then you think.

I initially read that as NH. And I could not figure out why New Hampshire had so many fucking chimps.

Trull noted that Ebola kills chimpanzees in the wild, and wondered if efforts to create a vaccine for wild apes could be hindered without research chimps for testing.

But seriously, can I read that journalism thesis? Because that sounds fascinating.

I'm so sorry. Just disgusting.

Agreed!!!!

I told her. It was the second of her boyfriends to do wildly inappropriate things, and her reaction was the same both times. “Why don’t you want Mommy to be happy?”

Right? If only the men had been an education for the moms. But sadly...

My mother had a boyfriend who knew how many days until my 17th birthday starting when I was 14, and referred to the age of consent as “ripening.” As an adult, I have huge red flags to that shit. Say that anywhere near my kid and I will end you.

No, it was a crappy thing to say. It doesn’t need to be said because yes, children are sometimes born into less than ideal situations, but that doesn’t make their lives any less valuable.

And obviously she raised a well-rounded, compassionate person who is able to both honor her mother and see past the end of her own nose to see that others are in the same boat. Whereas others are hoping that they all find oars to row with you, dearie, have found a fork and are poking holes in the damned boat.

So your answer is to tell impoverished single moms and single dads who are trying to do their best by their children working against a system waiting for them to fail and judging them when they do to “grow up”? Cool empathy, sis.

As a struggling single mother myself, I feel your pain, single fathers.