ELi5: Rats seem to be the gold standard for behavioral lab experiments – why? Other than quantity, what makes rats good test subjects in relation to humans?
In: Biology
If you look into it, rats are a terrible way to test things that are made for humans. There have been a ton of situations where something works on rats but not humans or had no effect on the rats while being super harmful to human beings.
If you want to truly test something, you gotta test on human beings.
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