refutation and concession

1. What is my thesis?

 

we should not experiment on animals.

  

2. What is the opposite position?

  

we should experiment using animals.

  

3. What arguments can I anticipate?

  

a) Animal testing is most accurate method because humans share many genes with animals.

  

b) It is very dangerous for humans to give a medicine that are not tested on animals directly.

  

4. How will I counter those arguments

  

a) animal testing cannot help people find human diseases because animals never reflect human bodies perfectly. (example - anti-CD28 monoclonal antibody TGN1412)

  

b) There are various alternatives to animal testing. (example - advanced computer Modeling)

 

  

some people can argue that animal testing is most accurate method because humans share most genes with mammals. However, opponent's opinion is overlooking that animal testing cannot help people find human diseases because animals never reflect human bodies perfectly. So, medicine that is effective in animals may be ineffective in human bodies. Even, animal experiments lead to serious problem to human health. One of the best examples of this occurred when monkeys treated with a therapeutic antibody (anti-CD28 monoclonal antibody TGN1412) did not predict the potentially fatal immune response that was triggered in humans. Also, It’s hardly surprising that the success rate for predicting harmful side effects from animal experiments is only 5-25%. So, animal testing is not accurate and reliable method because although they share a lot of genes with humans, animals testing can make poor data that have a bad effect on human beings.

  

Also someone can say that It is very dangerous for humans to give a medicine that are not tested on animals directly. But It is not important because there are various alternative to animal testing. One of examples is advanced computer Modeling. It show that these models can accurately predict the ways that new drugs will react in the human body and replace the use of animals in exploratory research and many standard drug tests. we don't argue that we should give medicine to human without any testing such as animal testing. we can ensure that these products are safe through various alternatives that are more effective rather than animal testing.