One major oversight of this article that I wish they’d included is that this type of animal research is not constrained to academic institutions, there are private companies doing the same thing.
While I don’t think ethics committees in academic institutions pose any meaningful opposition to planned animal studies outside of whether it will threaten their funding, the oversight in most private institutions is worse and the implications of “mistakes” in their studies are lower. It’s just a hit to their finances, there is little to no threat of a company losing their ability to continue animal research.
Otherwise, they did a good job of shedding light on the issue, particularly in calling out how groups are lucky to get any NIH funding if they don’t include animal research (also, good luck getting publications).
One major oversight of this article that I wish they’d included is that this type of animal research is not constrained to academic institutions, there are private companies doing the same thing.
While I don’t think ethics committees in academic institutions pose any meaningful opposition to planned animal studies outside of whether it will threaten their funding, the oversight in most private institutions is worse and the implications of “mistakes” in their studies are lower. It’s just a hit to their finances, there is little to no threat of a company losing their ability to continue animal research.
Otherwise, they did a good job of shedding light on the issue, particularly in calling out how groups are lucky to get any NIH funding if they don’t include animal research (also, good luck getting publications).