Results from Primate Research Cannot Be Extrapolated to Humans Although primate are similar to human, they are different. To take an example, AIDS researcher found there is a huge different between human and primate’s immune system. This make the experimentation worthless. Dr. Mark Feinberg, a leading HIV/AIDS researcher stated: "What good does it do you to test something in a monkey? You find five or six years from now that it works in the monkey, and then you test it in humans and you realise that humans behave totally differently from monkeys, so you've wasted five years’ Monkeys do not die of AIDS--but humans do.(The Absurdity of Primate Experimentation, n.d) Animal models have not contributed significantly to AIDS research. The Food and Drug Administration (2016) has noted that 92 percent of all drugs that are shown to be safe and effective in animal tests fail in human trials because they don’t work or are dangerous Experiments Contribute To Animals …show more content…
Which means that, monkeys taken to animal experiment can be beneficial to the species of monkey. The approach is a kind of utilitarianism. According to the principle of utility, the ultimate purpose of morality is to promote the world's largest general good, since good is pleasure or happiness, so the maximum common good that is to maximize pleasure or happiness. Interests can promote the increase of the world's joy or happiness, on the contrary, it will reduce the world's joy or happiness. The principle effect is to ask us to promote the greatest possible good, and the smallest possible pain. The act of catching primates into lab is promoted to save the whole spices of