I was interested because I’d seen anti-animal experimentation people say that animal experimentation is unnecessary because we can use computer models. I concluded that these people were nitwits, and assumed that their primary argument must be wrong. Is there a name for that logical fallacy/bias?
I’m surprised that a lot of the uselessness seems to come from bad experimental design. I’d assumed the major problem would be that there are significant, non-obvious differences between humans and animals.
It was indeed me. You can find it somewhere, but I copied it over to http://www.gwern.net/DNB%20FAQ#fn95
I’ve started reading the links.
I was interested because I’d seen anti-animal experimentation people say that animal experimentation is unnecessary because we can use computer models. I concluded that these people were nitwits, and assumed that their primary argument must be wrong. Is there a name for that logical fallacy/bias?
I’m surprised that a lot of the uselessness seems to come from bad experimental design. I’d assumed the major problem would be that there are significant, non-obvious differences between humans and animals.