NEURALINK CEO Elon Musk is facing scrutiny for alleged animal abuse during brain-chip clinical trials.
The internet is shunning Elon Musk after the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine filed a complaint against Neuralink for subjecting monkeys to abuse.
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Since the complaint went public on Thursday, thousands have taken to social media platforms to call out Musk for experiments that left 15 monkeys dead from trauma or euthanasia.
“Every article I read about Elon Musk is about how one of his ventures was a disastrous failure. SpaceX explosions, Tesla crashes (and explosions), that stupid tunnel, and now NeuraLink monkeys dying. He is not an innovator he is a guy who tweets,” one user wrote on Twitter.
“Tesla cars kill people and run stop signs. His satellites are falling out of orbit. Neuralink killed most of the monkeys. I’m beginning to think Elon Musk sucks at this,” another user added.
“Hey @elonmusk. F**k your torturing of animals,” a third proclaimed.
Neuralink, founded in 2016, has long been vocal about its ambitions to implant humans with brain chips in the hopes of tackling issues such as paralysis.
In order to achieve this goal, the company began testing its technology on monkeys in 2017 at the University of California, Davis, and continued until 2020.
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Throughout those years, the monkeys were subject to abuse that included parts of their skulls being removed in order to have electrodes implanted in their brains, as well as steel posts being screwed to their heads, according to the Physician’s Committee report.
The Committee also alleged that UC Davis is complicit as it received more than $1.4 million in funding from Neuralink to conduct the experiments.
The Physicians Committee most recently filed a second public records lawsuit in Yolo County Superior Court in order to forcefully nudge UC Davis to release videos and photographs documenting the experiments.
“We know that these videos and photographs are going to be disturbing, frankly,” PCRM research advocacy coordinator Jeremy Beckham told Fortune.
“We want to be able to get access to these videos and kind of show people a little bit more of the reality of what it’s like inside this Elon Musk-funded laboratory,” he added.
The new suit comes as Neuralink hinted it would begin human clinical trials earlier this year.
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