Originally posted by tomsonite
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If, 20 years ago, animals had been completely cured of SCIs, then you would be correct
Please provide the research done in which dogs, cats, mice, or other animals have been cured from chronic, complete spinal cord injuries.
I am not aware of any study in which an animal completely lost bowel, bladder, sexual, and autonomic function as well as all ability to voluntarily control their limbs or effectively ambulate, stay injured to a chronic time point at which their neurological condition was stable, then re-gain all of those functions to the degree that an untrained eye couldn't tell they had ever been injured. If you think anything less than that is a cure, then your definition is different from most other people.
If there was a reason to just say "screw the mechanism, let's test things on humans", why are you complaining about it on here? Scientists will never be allowed to test things on humans without solid animal evidence to back it up first. It is not the scientists that don't want to do human trials, it is regulatory agencies like the FDA (i'm sure you have something similar in Australia) that don't allow that to happen in the first place.
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