Neuralink's human trials volunteers 'should have serious concerns,' say medical experts
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A medical ethics committee responded to Elon Musk's brain-interface startup issuing an open call for patients yesterday.

Neuralink’s human trials volunteers ‘should have serious concerns,’ say medical experts::A medical ethics committee responded to Elon Musk’s brain-interface startup issuing an open call for patients yesterday.

  • garretble@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    1 year ago

    There an article in Wired just this week I think about how horrid the experiments on the animal were.

    Musk, of course, lied again saying the monkeys were old and going to be euthanized anyway. They were young, and the experiments were terrible for them — where they were clawing at their heads trying to remove the devices. Some had literal screws coming loose.

    • Bagel5941English
      20·
      1 year ago

      Reading this story I decided to boycott everything related to Elon Musk.

      Additional veterinary reports show the condition of a female monkey called “Animal 15” during the months leading up to her death in March 2019. Days after her implant surgery, she began to press her head against the floor for no apparent reason; a symptom of pain or infection, the records say. Staff observed that though she was uncomfortable, picking and pulling at her implant until it bled, she would often lie at the foot of her cage and spend time holding hands with her roommate.

      Animal 15 began to lose coordination, and staff observed that she would shake uncontrollably when she saw lab workers. Her condition deteriorated for months until the staff finally euthanized her. A necropsy report indicates that she had bleeding in her brain and that the Neuralink implants left parts of her cerebral cortex “focally tattered.”

      • frickineh@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        I don’t understand how researchers could see that and allow it to continue. What kind of sociopath do you have to be to knowingly, continually torture an animal like that, especially for something this fucking stupid?