neuroscientist 🧠 | Director @ https://www.scienceadvancement.org/ (SAO) | Moving U.S. biomedical research toward humans & away from other animals 🐀 | she/her/hers
Emily R. Trunnell, Ph.D.
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When people have the facts about animal experimentation and testing, they reject it.
And now more than ever before, they have the facts.
4️⃣ The incentives are being exposed.
Experiments on animals are embedded in a multibillion-dollar infrastructure spanning sectors. Once these large systems are established, they persist—even when the original justifications for them erode.
It's a predictable (and overwhelmingly hated) pattern.
3️⃣ Patients and their loved ones are done waiting.
They’ve been told animal experimentation is a "necessary evil," that it delivers cures.
Instead, they see failed clinical trials, unintended adverse effects, and decades of "breakthroughs" and promises that don’t translate into treatments.
1️⃣ People see animals differently now.
As we learn more about the inner lives of animals—their emotions, cognition, and social complexity—humans are expanding their moral circle and becoming less accepting of animal suffering.
2️⃣ Visibility has changed.
What used to be happen behind closed doors (yes, even to dogs!) is now documented, thanks to the courage of whistleblowers and undercover investigators, and because of the decades-long, tireless work of advocacy organizations like @peta.org.
People aren't looking away.
🚨The tipping point just hit.
For the first time in 21 years of @gallup.com tracking, more Americans say experiments on animals are morally WRONG (48%) than acceptable (45%).
news.gallup.com/poll/710981/...
Public opinion has been 📉 for years, but only now crossed the line.
My theories on why 🧵
In May, SAO and colleagues submitted recommendations for the #NIH agency-wide Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years 2027-2031.
Our recommendations are summarized in the graphic, but can be read in full on our website:
www.scienceadvancement.org/resources/re...
#SciPol #SciencePolicy #ResearchPolicy
