According to Eric Weinstein, the breeding of lab animals specifically for use in testing drugs resulted in non-typical genetics, which invalidates most of the testing they were used in anyway.

Wild mice have different genetics than those fed mouse chow for generations, and bred for economic production.

“Animal models are wrong more often than they are right,” says Don Ingber, a Harvard University bioengineer whose lab developed organ chip technology now being commercialized by the company Emulate, where he sits on the board and owns stock.

I’m shocked! Shocked this guy would be against animal testing and prefer people use his product.

We already have some major issues with drug efficacy (and maybe safety) in certain populations. This is because the vast majority of drugs are only tested on 20-something males, (usually white middle class ones, college attending, otherwise healthy ones). I wonder how that issue will be impacted by further reducing other forms of testing. And I wonder if this will make drug testing more difficult to recruit for (asking someone to try a new drug that has been tested in animals vs one that has not).

I wonder how many more recalls will happen with the FDA process after this change.

edit: and still probably better tested than the covid vax. /sarcasm

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