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One more animal experiment: force mice to vape and then to announce fake news

One more animal experiment: force mice to vape and then to announce fake news

Mis à jour le 23 March 2018

A recent US study using mice to assess the dangers of e-cigarettes creates a new scientific controversy around animal testing.

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After the scandal of diesel engines tested on animals, here again are other guinea pigs that have been subjected to toxic fumes in a very controversial research. Recent experiments conducted in the United States on mice and accrediting the dangers of vaping have quickly raised voices in the scientific community to denounce these scientific untruths; other studies on rodents are in support!

Who's smoking?

The findings of a team from New York University are alarmist: exposed during 12 weeks from very high doses of vapour from e-cigarettes (the equivalent of ten years of nicotine vaping by a human), these mice have presented altered DNA in their lungs, heart and bladder, and a reduction of restorative proteins in the cells of these organs. Results clearly point towards possible carcinogenic risks from electronic cigarettes in humans. "We are without scientific truth, but with manipulation" Reacted Professor Bertrand Dautzenberg, Pulmonologist. According to him, this experiment is not representative of exposure to humans and makes assumptions between mice and humans without even comparing the effect of vaping with that of tobacco smoke.

"This does not prove that vaping causes cancer," said Peter Hajek, an English specialist in tobacco addiction, who said the study was "fake news" ... very toxic. Jacques Le Houzec, pharmacologist and tobacco expert, also recalls an earlier similar study, which totally contradicts this one. Rats exposed for 2 years, 5 days a week and 20 hours to concentrated nicotine aerosols did not develop tumours, just a loss of weight...

This debate points to the buzz sought by certain scientific publications that broadcast alarmist news from targeted studies, deserving of further work before concluding.
For One Voice, this controversy among researchers emphasizes above all that we must finally put an end to animal experimentation. It is high time we stop using the age-old excuse of the advancement of humans and then to torture and kill animals, all to present finding that are in the interest of one industry or another.

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In the subject

Atrocity and abundance of animal experimentation projects in France: the banality of everyday life One Voice is asking France to encourage alternative methods to animal testing in the EU

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corine | Thursday 08 February 2018

Ce n'est pas parce que vos inutiles expériences fonctionnent sur les animaux qu'elles fonctionneront sur nous, laissez-les tranquilles, ils n'ont rien demandé, ils ne demandent qu'à vivre paisiblement comme nous.

groucha | Thursday 08 February 2018

Une seule réponse : cessez d'acheter des e-cigarettes et des cigarettes tout court!
Si ces industries ne disposaient pas de revenus très importants, elles ne se paieraient pas de l'expérimentation animale débile et cruelle!
Le fric, c'est le point faible.
Ne pas en attendre la moindre éthique...

laura | Thursday 08 February 2018

Je ne vois pas le rapport avec les animaux !! il y en a marre que les animaux subissent !!!

Alice | Thursday 08 February 2018

Tout le monde sait que le tabac est dangereux, pourquoi faire souffrir ces animaux, pour le plaisir ?
il faut que les hommes redeviennent des êtres humains et non des monstres comme il y en a beaucoup maintenant