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hshdhdhj4444 2 hours ago

Also “mouse models”.

The only purpose mouse models serve is to fill the popular press with sensational findings and torture a lot of mice.

whimsicalism 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

the only purpose of hacker news comments is to aggravate readers with overly reductive takes

oceansky 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

For this particular research, it's possible as only 5% of mouse experiments become available to humans.

But a lot of life-saving medicaments and techniques started as mouse testings, including Penicillin, cancer drugs and the polio vaccine.