So we ask ourselves again, how do we weight the costs and benefits between saving lives by eliminating others? Professor Albert Sabin's 1956 paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association stated "Approximately 9,000 monkeys, 150 chimpanzees and 133 human volunteers have been used thus far in the quantitative studies of various characteristics of different strains of polio virus". An animal is no less sensible of pain than a man. He has similar nerves and organs of sensation; and his cries and groans, in case of violent impressions upon his body, though he cannot utter his complaints by speech, or human voice, are as strong indications to us of his sensibility of pain, as the cries and groans of a human being, whose language we do not understand. A man can have no right to abuse and torment a beast. .
Is animal experimentation a price too high for some to pay? I guess the answer would depend on whether you were asking a human, a researcher, or an animal. .
Animal experiments occur when a researcher has an educated "guess." Then they must decide whether the benefits will outweigh the costs of the experiments. Scientifically, there are no correct answers to the question until the experiment has proven to be beneficial. More often than not, researchers will run into roadblocks when trying to compare results found in animals with results found in humans. When asked if they agreed that animal experiments can be misleading "because of anatomical and physiological differences between animals and humans", 88% of doctors agreed. The Smith Kline Beecham International Report shows that 95% of drugs passed by animal tests are immediately discarded as useless or dangerous to humans.
Although the lives of many animals are destroyed for the purpose of medicine, forty percent of patients will suffer side effects and some will die as a result of prescription treatment. In essence, researchers waste hundreds of animal lives to find that the results will harm or even kill humans.