henryscat
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Your argument makes no sense in the context of the facts put forward.tek-monkey said:Who said it wasn't? I said it was, but the scientists screwed up the tests. They didn't factor that chemicals used on parens carried through to the children, that is not a failure of animal testing more a failing of testing in general. Animal testing did not hinder nor hold back this development. Instead it proved that our scientists needed to be aware of a lot more than they currently were.
Thalidomide was animal tested before it went on the market. Putting that aside, following its release onto the market there was very quickly an irrefutable evidence base from humans that it caused birth defects in humans. It should have been withdrawn immediately based on this evidence. It wasn't. Instead scientists spent five years trying to re-create the results in animals with very little success... So even if extensive animal based teratogenicity testing (which where I'm assuming you think "scientists screwed up") on that scale had been carried out before thalidomide's release onto the market, it is still unlikely the disaster would have been averted. Read the evidence....!!!