wholesome animal experimentation. So cute and wholesome how they keep them in shitty cages, feed them a bland diet, and kill them the moment the experiment is over.

What a nice story.

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

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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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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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Uncritical support for comrade 42, fighting the good fight against animal exploitation.

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If we re-compress the image a few more times it’ll become even more of a zinger!

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I don’t see you posting memes.

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Do you think that disqualifies someone from providing valid criticism?

It doesn’t.

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Too many pixels and not enough jpeg artifacts :3

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Actually not all rats are afraid of cats. I had a lot of pet rats and some cats. While the two cats are mostly afraid and respectful of the rats, about 1/4 of the rats had no problem co-existing with the cats. Like, they saw the cat as a rat and acted like it, not afraid or anything, while another rat peed herself because she was so scared of the cats.

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Maybe that one had gotten the toxoplasmosis

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