By Xander Balwit With death all but obsolete, Jamie’s life felt moot and emaciated. The Obituary Desk at The Times, where he worked, had turned into a ghost town he presided over with the bearing of a man who had given everything up for the bitter disappointment of a mine...
My article offering concrete suggestions to improve the welfare of rodents used in scientific research is out today in Asimov Press. What is in here for the decerning rationalist you might wonder? Well, lots. I know you as people who like to think critically about how science proceeds and ask...
By Xander Balwit
With death all but obsolete, Jamie’s life felt moot and emaciated. The Obituary Desk at The Times, where he worked, had turned into a ghost town he presided over with the bearing of a man who had given everything up for the bitter disappointment of a mine devoid of mineral riches. He would go on long walks around the deserted halls, choosing a different desk each day from which to work on whatever writing projects he could find. It was a shame, for death was what he liked writing about most.
Lives had been easier to frame when they’d been time-bound. A man at 60 is hardly the same man at... (read 2941 more words →)
My article offering concrete suggestions to improve the welfare of rodents used in scientific research is out today in Asimov Press.
What is in here for the decerning rationalist you might wonder? Well, lots. I know you as people who like to think critically about how science proceeds and ask questions like: Why this stubborn attachment to animal experimentation? How large of a problem is this anyway? Have researchers just been socialized into thinking it is necessary? Does animal research even translate to meaningful human benefit? What if we just gene-edited animals to be less pain-sensitive?
I touch on all this while offering thoughtfully reasoned suggestions as to how we can improve translational research while mitigating the suffering of animals used as experimental subjects.
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