{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"A Cruel Deception?","description":"In this episode, we talk to Pandora Pound of Safer Medicine (UK) and Rachel Smith of Animal Free Research Advocacy (Australia), about the reliability (or otherwise) of research using animals and how researchers got hooked on using animals despite highly questionable results. What are the economic and other pressures? Do animal models, artificially creating human diseases in (non-human) animals, actually work? In contentious areas, how should one guard against confirmation bias \u2013 the temptation to cherry-pick data which fits one\u2019s ethical position? Donate here: https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/animalrightsdebate Join the WhatsApp community: https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/LTGteTLZkwI9XUtB1Xxfen Find out more: https:\/\/linktr.ee\/animalrightsdebate ","author_name":"Animal Rights: the Debate","author_url":"https:\/\/sites.libsyn.com\/494093","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/36546835\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/item\/36546835"}