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Animal Testing Support Area 2 Animal Testing is also bad because animals and humans have different bodies, immune systems, and reactions. “Internal interactions vary enormously from species to species…animal tests did not predict the tragic birth defects caused by thalidomide” (How to Debate an Animal Experimenter and Win). Thalidomide had been a medicine given to many pregnant women who had morning sickness. Many animals have died and suffered for no reason. “Of the 198 drugs that were tested on animals in accordance with Food and Drug Administration guidelines between 1976 and 1985, 51.5 percent caused reactions serious enough to result in withdrawal from the market…” (Animal Medical Experimentation is Unjustified). That means that the drugs that were supposed to be safe because of the results of the animal testing, were actually recalled from the markets because they hurt humans. Many people question the researchers but they still will not stop. “A 1980 editorial in clinical oncology asks why so much attention is devoted to the study of animal tumors when it is…hard to find a single common solid neoplasm [cancer] [in animals and humans]…” (Animal Medical Experimentation is Unjustified). Animal testing should be stopped because animals and humans have different reactions to different things.