PETArds against science
See trancendenz's post about that at petards, Where does PETA think all their interactive computer/vegan "dissection" tools came from???.
The way I see it is, if online dissections is all a doctor or vet ever did in training, then the only patients and animals they should be allowed to treat is online fictional ones. Online dissections are a good start, so that things can run more smoothly at the actual dissection and subjects won't be wasted by n00b mistakes that much. There is nothing like hands-on.
I do like animals, and I remember automatically apologizing to the rat subject back in high school biology class, (it came already dead soaking in a bucket of preservatives), and I wasn't the only one that felt kinda sorry for the poor dead thing but did it anyways because it was part of the lesson, though mostly it was probably provided to prepare us for dissections in University, it was 3-4 people per team. One girl was in biology because she was going to be a medical student in university, and someone was considering veterinary medicine. Biology was an opitional course and a very difficult one. The teacher was sensible about it, and told us the rats were probably very well treated, and they didn't look like scrawny neglected thing, the stomach was full.
I really like how experimentation on animals is portrayed in the Season One The Outer Limits episode, Blood Brothers. The chimpanzee was used to test vaccines, and though the scientists understood that for some of them, the chimpanzee might died, and they predicted that it will died for the Ebola one, they didn't mistreat it, preferring to baby talk it into staying still for the injections instead of just using restraint and ignoring its discomfort. After the chimpanzee survived and all celebrated because Spencer has found a cure, a while later, when the cure was proven not to be a lasting thing and the chimpanzee was found dying, Spencer was upset that the vaccine didn't work but he was also upset that it was dying what he felt was a needless death after all, and he was carrying the poor thing.
I have also heard of incidents in real life, where at the end of the research, if the animal is still healthy, sometimes the scientist will take it home and turn it into a pet.
The way I see it is, if online dissections is all a doctor or vet ever did in training, then the only patients and animals they should be allowed to treat is online fictional ones. Online dissections are a good start, so that things can run more smoothly at the actual dissection and subjects won't be wasted by n00b mistakes that much. There is nothing like hands-on.
I do like animals, and I remember automatically apologizing to the rat subject back in high school biology class, (it came already dead soaking in a bucket of preservatives), and I wasn't the only one that felt kinda sorry for the poor dead thing but did it anyways because it was part of the lesson, though mostly it was probably provided to prepare us for dissections in University, it was 3-4 people per team. One girl was in biology because she was going to be a medical student in university, and someone was considering veterinary medicine. Biology was an opitional course and a very difficult one. The teacher was sensible about it, and told us the rats were probably very well treated, and they didn't look like scrawny neglected thing, the stomach was full.
I really like how experimentation on animals is portrayed in the Season One The Outer Limits episode, Blood Brothers. The chimpanzee was used to test vaccines, and though the scientists understood that for some of them, the chimpanzee might died, and they predicted that it will died for the Ebola one, they didn't mistreat it, preferring to baby talk it into staying still for the injections instead of just using restraint and ignoring its discomfort. After the chimpanzee survived and all celebrated because Spencer has found a cure, a while later, when the cure was proven not to be a lasting thing and the chimpanzee was found dying, Spencer was upset that the vaccine didn't work but he was also upset that it was dying what he felt was a needless death after all, and he was carrying the poor thing.
I have also heard of incidents in real life, where at the end of the research, if the animal is still healthy, sometimes the scientist will take it home and turn it into a pet.