A formula for moral decision making?

Berlin neuroscience student Clara Kuper blogs about animal research and the ethical questions

A rhesus monkey performing a task in a training cage. The arm movement is recorded with cameras. By simultaneously measuring brain signals, researchers want to understand how the brain plans movements. Photo: Michael Berger

Clara Kuper is a neuroscience student from Berlin. In her interesting blog article, which was published on January 28, 2018 in the blog of her degree program (https://scanberlin.com), she deals with the question of the difficult ethical evaluation between knowledge gain in research and the possible harm of laboratory animals. She looks at the topic from an thought-provoking "mathematical" perspective.

The blog post can be read here

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