Testimonies from experts on the unreliabilities of animal experimentation:
Toxicity tests of pharmaceuticals in rodents only predict human toxicity 43% of the time
-H. Olson et al., “Concordance of the Toxicity of Pharmaceuticals in Humans and in Animals,” Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology 32, no. 1 (2000): 56-67
“Currently, nine out of ten experimental drugs fail in clinical studies because we cannot accurately predict how they will behave in people based on laboratory and animal studies,”
-Mike Leavitt, Health and Human Services Secretary
Info about the unreliability of animal experiments
- Dr. H. Shaw Warren, a sepsis researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital: Mice Fall Short as Test Subjects for Some of Humans’ Deadly Ills
- Dr.'s Junhee Seok, H. Shaw Warren, and Alex Cuenca: Septic Shock: Years of research into inflammatory disease, costing billions of dollars in research funding, has been wasted on the lowly mouse
- Dr. Neal Barnard (President of The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine): Drug testing on animals misleads, study find
- Professor Huub Schellekens, (Utrecht University, Netherlands) In vivo testing biopharmaceuticals leads to useless animal deaths
The Unreliability of Animal Experimentation: In Their Own Words (AR 2015)
- Researchers Stanley Lazic (Novartis Insitutes for Biomedical Research in Switzerland) and Laurent Essioux (Roche): New Study Says 91% Of Autism Studies Using Certain Animal Models Are Statistically Flawed
- Dr. Ehud Fonio (Weizmann Institute of Science's Department of Neurobiology), Zoology Professor Ilan Golani and Professor Yoav Benjamini (Israel Prize laureate, Tel Aviv University) Wrong test mice could result in flawed drugs, Israeli study finds: Researchers suggest the study of mice, on which the development of psychiatric drugs is based, is usually performed on the wrong kind of mouse, at the wrong time and for the wrong duration.
- Professors John Ioannidis & Malcolm Macleod (Stanford University) Animal testing failures put drug trial volunteers in danger
- Pat Dutt and Jonathan Latham, PhD: The Experiment Is on Us: Science of Animal Testing Thrown into Doubt
- Dr. John Ioannidis (Stanford University) Medical research often exaggerates studies' success
- Dr. Kenneth Litwak: Animal testing is a flawed model