Question: why are animals so important in science?

Ryan Cheale answered on 18 Jun 2015:

Animals and animal testing plays a vital role in medicine because it’s the best way to trial out medicine! It’s really hard to do these trials on a human in the first instances, things can go drastically wrong – see the elephant man!

Now this is not to say all animal testing is good, make up products should not be being tested on animals etc. But for the preservation of the human race it’s something which has to be done., sadly