{"podcast":{"title":"Animal Rights: the Debate","slug":"animal-rights-the-debate-6705712","podcast_index_feed_id":6705712,"rss_url":"https://feeds.libsyn.com/494093/rss","website_url":"https://sites.libsyn.com/494093","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/8/3/5/e/835e74b28f86012588c4a68c3ddbc4f2/abhijit-sinha-MpTAdygyG34-unsplash_square.jpg","author":"Martyn Ford & David Thomas","episode_count":49,"summary":"Animal Rights: the Debate explores the issues around around our relationship with animals.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-04T16:20:50.522247+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/animal-rights-the-debate-6705712"},"episode":{"title":"A Cruel Deception?","slug":"a-cruel-deception","published_at":"2025-05-15T06:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/animal-rights-the-debate-6705712/a-cruel-deception","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/animal-rights-the-debate-6705712","url":"https://8455740d-a913-453b-a5ed-20f522efd647.libsyn.com/a-cruel-deception","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/8455740d-a913-453b-a5ed-20f522efd647/riverside_copy_of_rachel_david_pandora_1st_podcast.mp3?dest-id=4223538","summary":"In this episode, we talk to Pandora Pound of Safer Medicine (UK) and Rachel Smith of Animal Free Research Advocacy (Australia), about the reliability (or otherwise) of research using animals and how researchers got hooked on using animals despite highly questionable results. What are the economic and other pressures? Do animal models, artificially creating human diseases in (non-human) animals, actually work? In contentious areas, how should one guard against confirmation bias – the temptation to cherry-pick data which fits one's ethical position? Donate here: https://ko-fi.com/animalrightsdebate Join the WhatsApp community: https://chat.whatsapp.com/LTGteTLZkwI9XUtB1Xxfen Find out more: https://linktr.ee/animalrightsdebate","meta_description":"In this episode, we talk to Pandora Pound of Safer Medicine (UK) and Rachel Smith of Animal Free Research Advocacy (Australia), about the reliability (or…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1797,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/animal-rights-the-debate-6705712/episodes/a-cruel-deception/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/animal-rights-the-debate-6705712/a-cruel-deception.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}