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An investigation by Wired reveals the grisly complications of Neuralink brain implants in monkeys, including brain swelling and paralysis.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"He's testing it on paralyzed people"

He's exploiting paralyzed people under the guise of trying to help them.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hes experimenting on the disabled.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I mean, at some point a treatment for the disabled has to be tested on the disabled.

There's a lot wrong with Musk, but testing a medical device on the target patients is hardly unethical.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

It is at the current stage. That is the point.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When some stupid high percentage of animal test subjects die from the test, you would think they'd work on the product more before moving forward. Instead they're like "welp caused paralysis and death in the majority of our animal test patients, this is totally ready for human tests!"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not saying their methods aren't flawed, just that testing a medical device on the targeted users is not at all unethical and is a requirement for approval.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Sure, that's what I was saying in the following sentence.