... a human is. However, any animal that is used in any type of testing is carefully cared for and is treated the same as a human with the same illness. Drug and scientific testing are not the only testing that is used on animals. Cosmetic experiments are also being used on animals. The most commonly used animals in cosmetic testing consist of: rabbits ... pain because they receive either anesthesia or painkilling drugs. In a few experiments (7 percent) anesthesia and pain-killers must be withheld because they would obscure the results of the research. An example of such research is the stu...

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... living from nonliving matter, was an accepted explanation which explained that under the proper conditions of temperature, time, place, etc., decaying matter simply turns into organic life. This idea dominated scientific thinking until 1846 when Louis Pasteur completely shattered the theory by his experiments. Under controlled laboratory conditions, Pasteur proved that no organic life can emerge from decaying, nonliving mater. The ... a few days, they become filled with living microorganisms. These organisms come from a biological cause, not a generational development. The mice that cam...

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... living from nonliving matter, was an accepted explanation which explained that under the proper conditions of temperature, time, place, etc., decaying matter simply turns into organic life. This idea dominated scientific thinking until 1846 when Louis Pasteur completely shattered the theory by his experiments. Under controlled laboratory conditions, Pasteur proved that no organic life can emerge from decaying, nonliving mater. The ... a few days, they become filled with living microorganisms. These organisms come from a biological cause, not a generational development. The mice that cam...

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... might have been a mere fraction of what it actually was. Within a single decade the centuries of superstition clinging to theories of divine retribution and toxic "efflura" gave way to the scientific understandings at Louis Pasteur and his published discovery of bacteria and Joseph Lister describing his experiments with carbolic acid and antiseptics. Now jump forward about one hundred and forty years ... ...

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... chemistry at Strasbourg and then at the Lille Faculty of Sciences where he was also the dean in 1854. Three years later he returned to Ecole Normale as a director of scientific studies, and retained the position until 1867, when he became a professor of chemistry at Sorbonne. In 1868 Louis had a brain stroke which left him partioally paralyzed. Despite his poor health ... ...

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... effect of boiling food, placing it in a vacuum, and exposing it to air, and then recording the results he obtained. Pasteur's idea of the new germ theory' helped others, for example Robert Koch, to take the final step in identifying germs which caused certain diseases. Pasteur himself was not a doctor, and did not prove that germs caused diseases in humans. When ... work of Koch and Pasteur had much to do with the development of new vaccines. This, in turn, led onto new and better health for everyone, and other ideas, for example the production of anti-toxins, to be developed. ...

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... a drug is safe because it has been tested on animals?" Anti Animal Cruelty's website said there were several instances where drug testing on animals had proved inconclusive, even dangerous. For example, Thalidomide was marketed as a safe tranquilliser for pregnant women after years of animal testing, yet resulted in more than 10,000 grossly deformed human babies worldwide. Aspirin, which can be ... ...

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... definitions, which render inspiration as an impassive cognitive process. Before investigating the inspiration process according to psychology, it is interesting to note some earlier descriptions of the phenomenon. Socrates, for example, maintained that inspired thoughts originate with the gods, ideas coming not when a person is rational, but when someone is "beside himself". (Cave, 2000) The origin of the word itself, like ... ...

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