I vividly recall a debate in grade 10 or something bio class were we were designated specific sides of the pro/anti GMO argument to research A person in the team I was up against said something like “GMOs have been correlated with [something bad, I can’t remember what] in studies done on rats and rats share [some big percentage] of their DNA with us” and I immediately rebutted that with a “just because something has been researched on rats does not mean it’s applicable to humans” and literally everyone in that class (including the teacher, whom I lowkey disliked from that point onwards) laughed at me
Years later, in university pursuing a life science degree, I attend a neuroscience conference and get told by multiple big-name researchers that we have results of drug trials, research experiments, etc which do fantastic on rats but completely awfully in humans and the moral of the story is that I’m still salty and that 14 year old me was more correct than the biology teacher what do you know :) :) :)
Good morning it’s been at least 4 years since this and I’m still salty
I mean we share like 60% Of our DNA w/bananas? Yeah big woop about rats… that doesn’t mean they’re right!
