There could not be a more unscientific method. Clearly, as animal 'tests' provide no protection for us, it is we who are the real guinea pigs when we are prescribed a new drug. Dangerous substances would not be marketed if the smokescreen of animal research data were ruled unacceptable as evidence. Animal 'testing' provides legal defence for drug manufacturers in court when suits for damages are instituted after adverse effects can no longer be ignored. Researchers receive funding by way of grants, running into billions of pounds, obtained from taxpayers and fundraising campaigns.
Many scientists base their entire careers on animal experiments.
All you have to do is select the appropriate species. Animal-based research delays and hampers advances in medicine. For instance. corneal transplants were delayed for nearly 90 years because of the results of animal studies, the breakthrough coming from clinical work. Where animal-based medicine has been helpful, this is despite animal experiments and not because of them, their safety only having been 'proved' through use in humans. There is a growing movement, world-wide, of thousands of doctors, scientists, nurses, disabled and millions of other people working to end this unscientific method of medical research.