Comment on Asshole Lab Rat
NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org 1 week ago
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.
Jumi@lemmy.world 1 week ago
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
In this story the researcher’s problem was that they let the rat live and used it across multiple experiments
NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org 1 week 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.
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
I figured, but in the meme story this is pretty explicitly what is happening.
NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org 1 week ago
They’re probably studying metabolic syndromes on cognitive function.