At the NIH, Jay Bhattacharya did a lot to reduce animal experimentation and thus reduce animal suffering. As far as ChatGPT can tell, this seems to be completely ignored by the Effective Altruism forum.
Marty Makary’s FDA is also taking it’s steps to reduce the need of animal testing for FDA approvals.
Is this simply, because Effective Altruists don’t like the Trump administration so they can’t take the win of MAHA bringing contrarians into control of health policy that do things like caring more about reducing animal suffering and fighting the replication crisis?
EAs concerned about animal welfare have typically focused on farmed animals, as opposed to animal testing, because of the much larger scale of the suffering
EAs mostly haven’t heard of it.
Maybe some EAs have heard about it, but they don’t think it is worth the effort to write a post about it.
But tribalistic explanations could be a factor too (e.g. MAHA has anti-science vibes, and EAs like to stay on the pro-science side).
(This is probably not the most constructive feedback, but my initial reaction to this short form was that it felt like a right-wing analog of left-wing “Why don’t the EAs tweet about Gaza?”-style criticisms).
At the NIH, Jay Bhattacharya did a lot to reduce animal experimentation and thus reduce animal suffering. As far as ChatGPT can tell, this seems to be completely ignored by the Effective Altruism forum.
Marty Makary’s FDA is also taking it’s steps to reduce the need of animal testing for FDA approvals.
Is this simply, because Effective Altruists don’t like the Trump administration so they can’t take the win of MAHA bringing contrarians into control of health policy that do things like caring more about reducing animal suffering and fighting the replication crisis?
I don’t think so.
Some less tribalistic hypotheses I can think of:
EAs concerned about animal welfare have typically focused on farmed animals, as opposed to animal testing, because of the much larger scale of the suffering
EAs mostly haven’t heard of it.
Maybe some EAs have heard about it, but they don’t think it is worth the effort to write a post about it.
But tribalistic explanations could be a factor too (e.g. MAHA has anti-science vibes, and EAs like to stay on the pro-science side).
(This is probably not the most constructive feedback, but my initial reaction to this short form was that it felt like a right-wing analog of left-wing “Why don’t the EAs tweet about Gaza?”-style criticisms).