Are animals the best tool for research?

• Animal experiments can mislead researchers or contribute to illness or death by failing to predict the toxic affects of drugs.

• There are innumerable subtle, but significant differences between species.

• Other more reliable methods to learn about medical problems.

• Unnatural administration of disease and laboratory environment.

• Better methods like epidemiological studies, human tissue and cell cultures, autopsy studies, endoscopic examination and biopsy, as well as new imaging methods, and molecular epidemiology.

• Animal models can be used so prove any theory