Macrophysiological System @invitroveritas.bsky.social · Nov 15 1 / 4
Some life scientists are defensive about calls to replace animal research, but polls show it's what the citizens who fund us want. With antivaxxers in power & trust in sci falling, we should jump at the chance to show we share popular values by incorporating & talking up more non-animal methods
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In general, we need to get past a pure deficit model of #scicomm. Some distrust is due to lack of understanding. But if we feel the need to scrupulously hide what we're doing from the public that funds it, our professional values may have diverged from theirs enough to need a course correction