A. Without research on animals, there can be no cures for illnesses such as cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer's, spinal cord injuries, multiple sclerosis. .
1. As history has proven, animal research leads to treatments and cures. In this century, animal research has helped to increase our life span by nearly 28 years. Certainly, these comments don't make the idea any clear. So lets look at this SLIDE (on what will happen without animal research).
2. In this century alone, as animal research has reaped enormous benefits for medical science. Let's look at the following data that we have on only a few of many advancements in medical science due to animal research. SLIDE. .
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B. Two thirds of all Nobel Prizes for Physiology or Medicine this century have been awarded for advances based on animal research and all of the winners who were surveyed showed there justification on animal treatment.
1. The UK organization Seriously Ill for Medical Research (SIMR) recently surveyed Nobel Laureates on the value of animal research in medicine and found universal support. Seriously Ill for Medical Research (SIMR) is a voluntary patients' group that encourages research into serious illnesses and medical conditions.
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2. According to the survey of SIMR, if you look at this slide this clearly suggests that there is no doubt whatsoever in the minds of the Nobel laureates. .
Transition: So you see how important animal testing has been for the advancement of medical science. But there is a big obstacle today for animal testing from Animal Rights activists, who not only want to ban cosmetic testing on animals, but also scientific testing.
II. Animal-rights groups have gained a higher profile over the past 15 years in the US, they have stepped up their protests against many uses of animals even if it has to do coming in the way of finding cure for life-threatening diseases like AIDS.