On the 23rd January, The Guardian published an article titled 'Animal research study shows many tests are full of flaws'.
'... The National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research [(NC3Rs)] was set up by the government in 2004. It has published, in the academic journal PLoS One, a systematic survey of the quality of reporting, experimental design and statistical analysis of recently published biomedical research using laboratory animals. It's so not good ...'
Read the article in full and add your comment at www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/jan/23/ben-goldacre-bad-science
The NC3Rs web-site is at www.nc3rs.org.uk/default.asp?id=1
Read the report - 'Survey of the Quality of Experimental Design, Statistical Analysis and Reporting of Research Using Animals' - at www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0007824