{"id":2207,"date":"2010-12-08T11:27:33","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T16:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/?p=2207"},"modified":"2014-04-07T09:21:45","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T14:21:45","slug":"pile-of-bunnies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/?p=2207","title":{"rendered":"Hooray for eyedrops."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I learned something about eye drops today. <\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re tested for efficacy on bunnies. Specifically, the eyes of the bunnies. Even more specifically, they apply the prospective eye drop, suck the aqueous humor out of the rabbit&#8217;s eye, then they can assay the resulting liquid. <\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/bunny.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(The eye will have been removed from the rabbit by this point and, concurrently, the rabbit will have been removed from this Earth.) <\/p>\n<p>We got shown a graph of aqueous humor drug concentration. Every data point is 3-5 dead bunnies. Strangely, this is not the most depressing graph I&#8217;ve seen all day. (See &#8220;Justin Bieber popularity over time&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>So at the end of the day in your pharmaceutical testing lab, there&#8217;s a pile of dead bunnies. As far as I know, there is not a pile of dead <em>baby<\/em> bunnies, but I can&#8217;t imagine a gaggle of baby bunnies being too happy upon seeing the other pile of bunnies. <\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RcH-3d-BZn4\">Ben Stein<\/a> is a monster. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I learned something about eye drops today. They&#8217;re tested for efficacy on bunnies. Specifically, the eyes of the bunnies. Even more specifically, they apply the prospective eye drop, suck the aqueous humor out of the rabbit&#8217;s eye, then they can assay the resulting liquid. (The eye will have been removed from the rabbit by this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2207"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3556,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207\/revisions\/3556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}