Unreliable animal testing
95% of drugs fail in human trials despite promising results in animal tests – whether on safety grounds or because they do not work
Using dogs, rats, mice and rabbits to test whether or not a drug will be safe for humans provides little statistically useful insight, our recent analysis found
Out of 93 dangerous drug side effects, only 19% could have been predicted by animal tests, a recent study found
Using mice and rats to test the safety of drugs in humans is only accurate 43% of the time, a recent study found