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Pigs, Bends, and Ethical Dilemmas | Raleigh News
Duke researchers shocked the diving world—and sparked ethical outrage—by using forty young pigs to test a new method to prevent “the bends,” with devastating results: over 85% of pigs on heliox died within hours, while those switched to carbon tetrafluoride-oxygen mixtures survived. PETA condemned the study as cruel and questioned the use of Navy-funded animal testing, arguing pigs aren’t human proxies and taxpayer money should fund more ethical research. Despite meeting institutional standards and researchers’ silence, the controversy underscores the fierce debate between scientific progress…
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