• solrize@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Why can’t the efficacy of these dogs be tested in a lab, just like a clinical drug trial? 100 dogs, 50 shown box containing drugs. 50 shown placebo, handler and lab tech don’t know which is which. Then see whether the drugs outperform placebo in getting the dogs to alert.

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      2 months ago

      It’s not that it can’t, it’s that it won’t. Drug dogs are one of the tools of oppression used by the police.