Neuralink shows what happens when you bring “move fast and break things” to animal research

Image credit: Christina Animashaun / Vox; Getty Images. Article by Kenny Torrella. Vox – December 11, 2022.

Elon Musk’s brain chip implant company is reportedly under federal investigation for violating the Animal Welfare Act.

Among the many grievances people harbor toward Elon Musk, add one more: alleged animal cruelty. Neuralink, a startup co-founded by Musk in 2016, aims to develop a brain chip implant that it claims could one day help paralyzed people walk and blind people see. But to do that, the company has first been testing its technology on animals, killing some 1,500 since 2018 — and employee whistleblowers recently told Reuters the experiments are going horribly wrong. […]

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