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Where in the article did it say NeuroLink was deliberately torturing the animals? In fact, the article said that the animals are killed after research in order
by sixQuarks 4y ago
Where in the article did it say NeuroLink was deliberately torturing the animals? In fact, the article said that the animals are killed after research in order to do post mortem examinations. This is standard across many animal testing labs.
- SketchySeaBeast 4y agoThey don't seem to be DELIBERATELY torturing them, but there seems to be a lot of easily predictable negligence going on.
- discordance 4y agoI would feel tortured if a team of people were to purposefully drill a hole in my head and install a device into my brain to see how I responded. Seems deliberate enough?
- SketchySeaBeast 4y agoThis is how we could describe any procedures in this area of medicine, so the intentions seem to meet the criteria for calling it a test and not torture, but the sloppiness is the extra cruelty on top.
- iancmceachern 4y agoIt is deliberate when they had the time, money and expertise to do better but chose not to do better.
- SketchySeaBeast 4y agoGood point.
- iancmceachern 4y agoThere are other articles describing horrific incidents: "In two separate incidents, experimenters used an unapproved adhesive called BioGlue to fill holes in the animals’ skulls, which seeped through to the monkeys’ brains. In one monkey, the use of BioGlue caused bleeding in her brain, and she vomited so much from the resulting side effects that she developed open sores in her esophagus." https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220926005606/en/Physicians-Committee%E2%80%99s-Lawsuit-Against-Elon-Musk-Company-Neuralink-Reveals-Existence-of-Hundreds-of-Photos-of-Monkeys-Used-in-Painful-Experiments https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220926005606/en/Phy...
- noptd 4y agoTwo mistakes != Torture. You're obviously not arguing in good faith here.
- iancmceachern 4y agoIt's not two mistakes. It's two cases of torture. Just because it's only two doesn't mean it wasn't torture. It's not like they discovered the mistake and then immediately euthanized the animals, they chose to continue the experiments and torture them after the mistakes were evident.