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The studies are now in humans, and any such gruesomeness that occurs there will be scrutinized. With the complex coverage Neurolink gets and the polarity of opi
by vibrio 3y ago
The studies are now in humans, and any such gruesomeness that occurs there will be scrutinized. With the complex coverage Neurolink gets and the polarity of opinions on Musk, it will be interesting to see how patient enrollment goes.
- matthewdgreen 3y agoThe real concern is that the patients will be Musk fanboys, and insufficiently cautious about their own health.
- jasfi 3y agoI don't understand how the FDA could have given approval for human trials, after what happened to those monkeys. I thought that the FDA was quite stringent about these things. Aren't there published guidelines for what constitutes too much discomfort/pain for animal testing? Rules?
- Zigurd 3y agoWhat happened to the monkeys is secondary to Elon not understanding why and what would happen to them: He publicly stated the monkeys were terminally ill. They were not. That's not how anything works. If you don't grok that, you should be nowhere near decision making about animal testing. Evidently Elon did not understand that "terminal" meant the test animals would likely or certainly be euthanized if they did not perish due to the experiments being run: https://futurism.com/neoscope/elon-musk-neuralink-terminally-ill-monkeys https://futurism.com/neoscope/elon-musk-neuralink-terminally... That said, there are standards for animal suffering in research, and that should be checked as well.