There is no “potentially revolutionary medical treatment” that would be held up at Neuralink by holding them to standard animal testing practices. In fact, they

There is no “potentially revolutionary medical treatment” that would be held up at Neuralink by holding them to standard animal testing practices. In fact, they would be sped up since the extremely sloppy processes at Neuralink actually slow down the development of medically useful and safe procedures. For instance there is no medical research benefit to inserting the wrong implant into 25 different pigs. It just requires duplicated work and calls into question the validity of any results they might have as they might be erroneous. Another reason is that human testing is a critical part of developing a actually useful implant and demands the utmost concern for safety. Having a culture of slapdash, reckless disregard for their animal test subjects means they will be grossly unqualified to operate on human subjects. In fact, we have already seen evidence of this by the fact that the FDA has rejected their applications to begin human clinical testing citing safety concerns. Causing extra animal suffering while not only getting no benefit from it, but actually causing net harm is the definition of needless. Even McDonald’s is better than that; at least they provide some people something of positive value.