C. Ray Greek and Jean Swingle Greek

About the author: C. Ray Greek and Jean Swingle Greek are cofounders of Americans for Medical Advancement, a nonprofit organization, which educates the public about the hazards of applying the results of animal testing to humans. They are also authors of the book Specious Science: How Genetics and Evolution Reveal Why Medical Research on Animals Harms Humans.

Modern medical advances such as antibiotics and vaccines are not the result of animal experiments. For example, experiments with mice and rats failed to turn up any connections between cancer and smoking. Epidemiological studies, not animal experiments, found links between heart disease and cholesterol. Furthermore, more than half of the medications released between 1976 and 1985 were taken off the market or relabeled because dangerous side effects were discovered that...