Christian Rodriguez Perez (@c-rp.bsky.social) found fate, quantity, and species impacted desire to reduce the number of animals used in #research.

Did Dariusz Miękisz find a #sideEffect effect on consent validity? At low levels of blame for being less informed #consent consequences mattered.

#ELSI

Lastly 🇨🇭 Transparency in animal experimentation: Swiss laws inform the public about aspects like species and severity, but key info on e.g. surplus animals and funding is missing. This article explores how legal updates could fill these gaps.

www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/14...

It is argued that ethical xenotransplantation could require genetic pain disenhancement in pigs.

In this commentary we advocate for prioritizing alternatives and highlight the importance of considering non-sentientist harms.

jme.bmj.com/content/50/1...

Back to Swiss law:

"Switzerland has one of the strictest law regarding animal welfare" - you may have heard this many times to argue that all is fine for animals in 🇨🇭

In this paper with @nicodmueller.bsky.social we call this the Ranking Argument and we discuss its flaws.

leoh.ch/article/view...

The previous paper also discusses conflicts between the Rs leading to sacrificial dilemmas.

Here we present an approach to shed light on stakeholders’ decision-making in such dilemma using Experimental Bioethics - #bioxphi. Swiss-based study already underway!

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Modern definitions of the #3Rs (Replace, Reduce, Refine) tend to depart from Russell & Burch’s original ones.

What about Swiss law? 🇨🇭 In this paper we highlight discrepancies, including the notion of an “evolutionary scale” to rank animal models.

altex.org/index.php/al...

Back to Swiss law:

"Switzerland has one of the strictest law regarding animal welfare" - you may have heard this many times to argue that all is fine for animals in🇨🇭.

In this paper (with @nicodmueller.bsky.social) we call this the Ranking Argument and we discuss its flaws.

leoh.ch/article/view...

The previous paper also discusses cases of conflicts between the Rs (i.e., 3R dilemmas). Here we present an approach to shed light on stakeholders’ decision-making in such dilemma using Experimental Bioethics #bioxphi.

A Swiss-based study is already underway!

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Modern definitions of the 3Rs (Replace, Reduce, Refine) tend to depart from Russell & Burch’s original ones. What about Swiss law? 🇨🇭 In this paper we highlight discrepancies, including the notion of an “evolutionary scale” to rank animal models.

altex.org/index.php/al...

Thanks Nico!