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Re: animal rights campaigners jailed
Jan 25, 2009, 17:58
handofdave wrote:
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I do think that as computer modeling becomes more and more sophisticated, we'll eventually be able to test things out on 'virtual humans'.


No, that is not possible, not safely, not at all. To quote my own oft used mantra, you can never be sure you have all the numbers on the table, ever. Particularly true when dealing with a complex system, even more true when dealing with an organic system where no two models of it are the same.

Even animal testing doesn't identified problems which have later turn up in human testing, there were human trials here in Addenbrookes, Cambridge of a new drug which resulted in the deaths of some of the volunteers, and permanent damage to others quite recently. That drug had been through animal trials, and it would be impossible to say that if we had a virtual human model it would have identifed it. It may have, it may not, you' can't say, you could never say. All you can do is try and trap as many possible exceptions as you possibly can, come up with as many possible trial enviroments as you can, etc.
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