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.
Well, yes, in that you aren’t hallucinating. No, in that I can’t find it either on about 3 minutes of googling. I vaguely recall gwern being involved, but may be confabulating.
Does anyone remember a post (possibly a comment) with a huge stack of links about animal research not transferring to humans?
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.
Well, yes, in that you aren’t hallucinating.
No, in that I can’t find it either on about 3 minutes of googling.
I vaguely recall gwern being involved, but may be confabulating.
I was betting on either gwern or lukeprog.