If we found a species of aliens that clearly suffered like us but bred as fast as insects and were as easy to manage, would the moral implications of experimenting on them still be irrelevant compared to the utility of experimenting on them?
Because they didn't prove that insects expeirience pain as people understand it. They just proven that expeiriencing injury sensitizes an insect.
Article tries to balance between biting the audience with insect pain but then trying to not be completely false calls it 'pain' and nociception which is the only scientifically accurate term for what is observed.
GP seemed to say it doesn't matter whether they experience pain or not because the convenience of experimenting on them outweighs any suffering they may undergo. That's not specific to this experiment.
I was just explaining why focusing on moral aspect is the wrong reaction to this research. It's wrong because there are no moral insights from this research. They didn't obtain any new indications that insects feel pain.
If we found a species of aliens that clearly suffered like us but bred as fast as insects and were as easy to manage, would the moral implications of experimenting on them still be irrelevant compared to the utility of experimenting on them?