Does that mean that a parent "forcing" his child to undergo a painful medical treatment without the child's consent in order to cure him is torturing his child?
You realize that's quite harsh, don't you?
In order to gain approval and funds for animal based research you need to give substantial theoretical evidence that your particular experimentation has a relatively good chance of success, and that eventual discoveries will have a positive and valuable impact on modern medicine and future research.
While it is unfortunate that not all research provides direct practical information, it is also true that many scientific experiments are approved in order to further our understanding, and create the basin for tomorrow's groundbreaking discoveries.
As much as I know this research could in the future lead to a way to properly interface artificial eyes to our brain!
Unfortunately I was not on Dr. Hubel and Wiesel's appointing committee, nor am I an expert in the field and thus am not able to answer you properly.
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Amen Brother!
Does that mean that a parent "forcing" his child to undergo a painful medical treatment without the child's consent in order to cure him is torturing his child? You realize that's quite harsh, don't you?
In order to gain approval and funds for animal based research you need to give substantial theoretical evidence that your particular experimentation has a relatively good chance of success, and that eventual discoveries will have a positive and valuable impact on modern medicine and future research.
While it is unfortunate that not all research provides direct practical information, it is also true that many scientific experiments are approved in order to further our understanding, and create the basin for tomorrow's groundbreaking discoveries.
As much as I know this research could in the future lead to a way to properly interface artificial eyes to our brain!
Unfortunately I was not on Dr. Hubel and Wiesel's appointing committee, nor am I an expert in the field and thus am not able to answer you properly.