Sonia T. Felipe

Scientific research more relevant to the preservation of health and life of humans resulted from studies based on clinical, on observation and mapping of the diseases that most affect on the human population or studies aimed at disease prevention, not only to combat your symptoms.

Scientific discoveries contributed most to prolong human life resulted primarily from studies and clinical observations, and no tests on live animals of other species.

As a rule, studies based on the model animal alive (vivisection) serve only to develop the ability of scientists to build models that will have to be, later, redesigned for use in studies aimed at investigating potential therapies for human diseases.

After all this effort, the drugs do not work as promised. Many are withdrawn after its lethality observed for human. Science uses the money and invests the time of their operators being lost in the labyrinths of vivisection. Your investment in this unique method of research is directly proportional to its failure to respond satisfactorily to the issues with which it proposes to respond to research.

While generations of young scientists are transformed into vivisectors under the hegemonic imposition of an ideology clearly failed, so many generations of young, babies and adults die each year from those same diseases as the scientist for more than five or six decades promises to seek healing in rats and mice bodies the answer to ills affecting ever more devastatingly bodies of human subjects.

Science vivisector has not made any progress in finding the cure of the great evils that produce chronic diseases, painful and lethal more common in human organisms: cancer, vascular accidents, diabetes, hypertension, Alzheimer's, sickness Parkinson. Besides the obvious failure of all drugs used today for “care” these diseases, it is necessary to account for the failure of other fabricated from vivisector model for the treatment of other diseases afflicting humans, the example of depression and other forms of psychological distress.

By adopting the body of mice, times, dogs, cats, pigs, horses, non-human primates and birds as references for the investigation, science fails to study and know the body and the psyche of the beings of the human species, addressed their results.

What does the scientist vivisector is studying the physiology of these diseases in organisms that, usually, even the naturally produce. It takes “manufacture” a mouse with cancer drugs to test it promised to cure cancer in organisms that were not “manufactured” with cancer, but which develop. The cancer death remains almost predictable, in spite of the drugs to which the patient is subjected in human “luta contra” he. Postpone death does not cure.

This science may forego the use of live animals, because, although she has produced an incalculable drugs to combat the symptoms of such ailments, to support his research vivisseccionismo, does not produce results that guarantee “care” Frequent any of those evils that affect acutely or chronic health and destroy human life.

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Sonia Felipe Teresinha, 53, Dr. em moral philosophy and political theory pela University of Konstanz (Germany) with postdoctoral fellow in bioethics, animal ethics by the Center for Philosophy, University of Lisbon (Portugal), is a professor of undergraduate and postgraduate doctorate in philosophy and interdisciplinary humanities at the Federal University of Santa Catarina.