The standard media debate over the use of animals in medical research is presented as having 2 sides: one side is AGAINST ANIMAL TESTING; the other side argues that ANIMAL TESTING IS GOOD. This debate has been framed and limited in the media so that most people believe the only arguments against experiments on animals are the concerns about ethics and animal rights welfare issues. On the other hand the medical businesses and industries claim that animal testing is necessary for advancing human medicine and science. However there is a third opinion which is often not publicized, even though it is a very important and evidence-based opinion. That is the voice of doctors and scientists - including people who have done extensive research on animals - who state that the real reason medical experiments are done on animals is for commercial and legal reasons. They explain that the great advances in human medicine and healthcare come from the ethical and scientific study and treatment of human illness, of treating sick people; via clinical experimentation. They furthermore explain that the practice of vivisection on animals - of using artificially contrived laboratory models of disease - is not scientific; it is a pseudoscience that produces confusing, misleading results that lead to unsafe and dangerous medicines, pharmaceutical drugs and surgical procedures being approved and used on humans. These medical specialists explain further that the medical industry's reliance on animal research is a major factor in orthodox medicine causing injuries and deaths to millions of people each year - as shown in studies published in highly respected medical journals. For facts, statistics, quotes, articles and links see