Comment on Asshole Lab Rat

NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  In this story the researcher’s problem was that they let the rat live and used it across multiple experiments

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  • NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I am not sure if you’re being deliberately contrarian to protect cognitive dissonance, or just wildly ignorant of how studies are conducted.

    In the most literal sense a study is made of a battery of experiments that are each run across a series of tests. This is also just “an experiment” colloquially since they’re all testing the same area. They do not take rats from say a maze solving study, then give them diabetes for a different study, then give them a brain tumor before putting them in the decapicone (a real product).

    I have stolen lab rats marked for death, I know what I’m talking about.

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    • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They do not take rats from say a maze solving study, then give them diabetes for a different study, then give them a brain tumor before putting them in the decapicone (a real product).

      I figured, but in the meme story this is pretty explicitly what is happening.

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      • NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        They’re probably studying metabolic syndromes on cognitive function.

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• Jumi@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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