Some of the most noteworthy landmarks in the history of preventive medicine can be included here, such as vaccines or antioxins to combat rabies, cholera, diphtheria, tetanus, pneumaonia, polio measles, and viral hepatitis. ... Some activists suggested that researchers should use alternatives like computer simulations. ... Where do they think the data comes from that is then entered in the computer simulations? ... The most important truth about the history of medicine is that most major medical discoveries has been due to the account of animal experimentation. ...

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One of the most sensitive aspects of our relationship with animals is the use of animals in laboratory sciences. Some manufactures of cosmetics and household products still conduct painful and useless tests on live animals, even though no law requires them not to. Some people, called anti-vivisectionists, are at one extreme in their concern. They want to abolish all experiments on live animals. At the other extreme there are those who say that it is quite all right for us to do whatever we like to animals. ...

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