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Russell and Burch The Principles of Humane Experimental Technique, 1959

Explore the ethical and scientific complexities of using animals in research, emphasizing the principles of Replacement, Reduction, and Refinement. Delve into the need for animal welfare practices, the role of chemical knowledge, and the ongoing debate on animal use in scientific pursuits. Understand the importance of minimizing pain and distress while balancing the necessity of animal use in medicine. Discuss the issues of accountability, pain management, and improving standards of care in biomedical research. Address the challenges posed by extreme viewpoints and the harmful effects of calumny in the scientific community, emphasizing the responsibilities of intellectual persistence and leadership. Reflect on the transformative nature of scientific revolutions in shaping the ethical landscape of animal research.

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Russell and Burch The Principles of Humane Experimental Technique, 1959

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  1. … Human truths, however valuable they may seem, are always open to challenge, to revision, to refinement, to refutation, to repeal. Only the quest is eternal. - A. Geuŕard (1954)

  2. Russell and BurchThe Principles of Humane Experimental Technique, 1959 • Replacement • Reduction • Refinement

  3. In Discussing Animal Research “I believe that more and more people are becoming aware that to use animals thoughtlessly, without any anguish or making an effort to find another way diminishes us as human beings.” Jane Goodall, 2001

  4. Animal Welfare • The need • To have adequate food • Access to fresh water • To be • Pain and distress free • Free of anxiety and fear • Express normal behavior, e.g., hiding, grooming

  5. Animals in Research – Comparison of U.S. and Europe

  6. Where Am I? • Responsibility to improve humankind • Responsibility for the environment and thus a responsibility for animals. • Reverence for life

  7. Therefore, we should do all we can to eliminate or minimize pain and distress, but the use of animals in medicine is both necessary and appropriate.

  8. The Program: Chemical Knowledge • NAS (1984) – 78% of HPV chemicals had less than minimal toxicology data • EDF (1997) – 71% of HPV chemicals lack minimum data • CMA/ACC (1997) – 20% of HPV chemicals have basic hazard data • EPA (1998) – less than 10% of HPV chemicals have minimum health/ecotox data

  9. Definitions • HPV – high production chemicals - > 1 million lbs/year ~ 3000 chemicals • Minimum Tox Data – Acute, subchronic, genotox, reprotox, teratogenicity (OECD, SIDS)

  10. The Problem – Animal Use • HPV program • Endocrine disruptors • Pesticides • Children’s health • EU White Paper

  11. The CAAT Response TestSmart Laboratory for Molecular Toxicogenomic and Proteomics • Use archived materials from HPV testing – NTP • Utilize NTP methods for extraction of mRNA • Develop fundamental bioinformatics for large relational database • Public accessability

  12. The Troubled Middle/The Silent Middle

  13. The extreme positions are minorities with views that are irreconcilably opposed. One cannot expect discussion when one see animal use as a holocaust and those that think animal use raises no moral issues. Economist, 1996

  14. Animals in Research The issue for the public is: • Accountability • Pain and distress

  15. Acceptance of Animals in Biomedical Research

  16. Animals in Research The issues for the scientific community • Increase effectiveness of IACUC’s • Further enhance standard of care • Deal with the calumny

  17. Calumny Is the deliberate, false, malicious representation of reality. It is designed to manipulate the truth so as to injure.

  18. Calumny • Is not just lying or telling an untruth • It does not deny the truth, it misuses the truth and thus sounds reasonable and plausible – thus it is effective and destructive

  19. “Calumny is the act of fundamental and comprehensive disrespect for the basic honor and dignity of all human beings” W.S. Green - 2001

  20. Obligations in the Face of Calumny • Intellectual persistence: Must challenge the information and interpretations • Leadership: The responsibility of the scientific community

  21. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: Role for History Each of them necessitated the community’s rejection of one time-honored scientific theory in favor of another incompatible with it. Each produced a consequent shift in the problems available for scientific scrutiny and in the standards by which the profession determined what should count as an admissible problem or as a legitimate problem-solution. And each transformed the scientific imagination in ways that we shall ultimately need to describe as a transformation of the world within which scientific work was done. Such changes, together with the controversies that almost always accompany them, are the defining characteristics of scientific revolutions.

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