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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Research showing a chemical found in bear bile that can slow the development of type 1 diabetes in mice recently drew headlines in numerous outlets.
Putting aside well-documented evidence showing how non-predictive research data from mice is when applied to humans (e.g., a collaborative study by academics, government, and private companies showing less than 50 percent ? essentially the same odds as flipping a coin ? of testing in rodents predicts human toxicity, and a groundbreaking paper calling mouse models ?close to random? in predicting human outcomes, among others), the media?s coverage of the new study is predictively ? and falsely ? overenthusiastic and sensationalizing. Such irresponsible journalism contributes to the difficulty we face moving science forward toward research that can and will predict human response.
http://www.onegreenplanet.org/news/bear-bile-type-1-diabetes/
Putting aside well-documented evidence showing how non-predictive research data from mice is when applied to humans (e.g., a collaborative study by academics, government, and private companies showing less than 50 percent ? essentially the same odds as flipping a coin ? of testing in rodents predicts human toxicity, and a groundbreaking paper calling mouse models ?close to random? in predicting human outcomes, among others), the media?s coverage of the new study is predictively ? and falsely ? overenthusiastic and sensationalizing. Such irresponsible journalism contributes to the difficulty we face moving science forward toward research that can and will predict human response.
http://www.onegreenplanet.org/news/bear-bile-type-1-diabetes/