That animal testing is beneficial. "The next time an animal rights group claims that animal research provides no benefit to humans, stop and think about the astonishing medical advances made over the past fifty years. Because scientists experimented on research animals, vaccines were developed and life-saving new medical and surgical techniques were perfected, diseases were cured, extending our lives and alleviating untold amounts of human suffering (Smith, Wesley. J.) While it may be true that animal testing helps alleviate human suffering to some extent, it does not fully help us understand how things will react when a human uses it.