The Complement Ruse
In his recent article ‘Path dependency and the rescuing of the biomedical research enterprise’, Dr Zaher Nahle alerts us to Industry’s attempts to make non-animal methods (NAMs) merely complements to animal experimentation. The premise is that using NAMs alongside animal models can form ‘a unique, rare hybrid’ that will be hard to imitate. He warns that ‘in the event of the "complements" systems becoming widely used, as intended, extricating one component from the mix then (i.e., removing the animal component) is next to impossible. (…) Making NAMs mere ‘Complements’ to animal experimentation is the modern-day Trojan Horse of the animal- industrial complex to occupy the NAMs space.‘
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