The Pros And Cons Of Human Testing

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Under many circumstances, human testing is indeed ethical because of the reasons that I am about to unload. Just so we're on the same page, human testing is doing an experiment with humans and is still debated to this day. Human experimentation is debatable because of two reasons. The first being what happened in WW2, the second being the fact that humans are living and breathing.
Everyone (or most people) know how monkeys are very commonly used as the "human" variable in human-based experiments. I'll let you on to a little secret. Monkeys aren't even near halve of the human brain. There are many signs that point this out according to pcrm.org and ncib.nlm.org, For example, the eminence visual area covers a whopping 10% of the brain instead

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