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Exclusive: Musk’s Neuralink faces federal probe, employee backlash over animal tests
Reuters ^ | December 5, 2022 | Rachael Levy

Posted on 12/05/2022 3:32:13 PM PST by lowbridge

Elon Musk’s Neuralink, a medical device company, is under federal investigation for potential animal-welfare violations amid internal staff complaints that its animal testing is being rushed, causing needless suffering and deaths, according to documents reviewed by Reuters and sources familiar with the investigation and company operations.

Neuralink Corp is developing a brain implant it hopes will help paralyzed people walk again and cure other neurological ailments. The federal probe, which has not been previously reported, was opened in recent months by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Inspector General at the request of a federal prosecutor, according to two sources with knowledge of the investigation. The probe, one of the sources said, focuses on violations of the Animal Welfare Act, which governs how researchers treat and test some animals.

The investigation has come at a time of growing employee dissent about Neuralink’s animal testing, including complaints that pressure from CEO Musk to accelerate development has resulted in botched experiments, according to a Reuters review of dozens of Neuralink documents and interviews with more than 20 current and former employees. Such failed tests have had to be repeated, increasing the number of animals being tested and killed, the employees say. The company documents include previously unreported messages, audio recordings, emails, presentations and reports.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


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1 posted on 12/05/2022 3:32:13 PM PST by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

Is this the place where Fauci let the beagles be eaten alive by flies?? Oh, never mind


2 posted on 12/05/2022 3:33:17 PM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: lowbridge

I’ve heard some bad things about the animal tests, like monkey’s being paralyzed so all they have is their mind to try and make it work.


3 posted on 12/05/2022 3:33:46 PM PST by Jonty30 (You can't spell liberal without the a-hole. )
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To: God luvs America

Is this the place where Fauci let the beagles be eaten alive by flies?? Oh, never mind

People in the Inner party are given a pass. People outside who disturb the status quo of the elites will be given the third degree.


4 posted on 12/05/2022 3:35:16 PM PST by Flick Lives (Cui bono)
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To: lowbridge

Pure Evil .
Torture for a Buck .
Monstrous.


5 posted on 12/05/2022 3:40:51 PM PST by ncalburt ( Gop DC Globalists are the evil)
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To: lowbridge

Cool! Now do Maybelline. And Pfizer. And...


7 posted on 12/05/2022 3:43:17 PM PST by montag813
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To: lowbridge

This is called “Get Musk” for supporting free speech.


8 posted on 12/05/2022 3:43:52 PM PST by libertylover (Our biggest problem, BY FAR, is that almost all of big media is agenda-driven, not-truth driven.)
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To: ncalburt

Right. Evil to let those humans be able to walk. How horrible.../s.


9 posted on 12/05/2022 3:54:03 PM PST by Varda
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To: lowbridge

The way around the constitutional prohibition against bills of attainder is simply to decide who you want to punish and then have the executive branch investigate everything about them forever, make stuff up if you have to, and then put him away for whatever you found or made up.


10 posted on 12/05/2022 3:59:59 PM PST by pepsi_junkie ("We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. F. B. I. is tending in that direction." - Harry S Truman)
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To: lowbridge

I’m fine with animal testing.

If anyone is fine with slaughtering perfectly healthy animals to selfishly eat them, they should be okay with testing, too.


11 posted on 12/05/2022 4:03:45 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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Stop testing on animals for pete sake. It’s cruel. Much better results using death row inmates....now that’s the way to go. Those parasites will actually give back to society


12 posted on 12/05/2022 4:05:51 PM PST by GenX4Real (After Tuesday even the calendar says W T F)
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To: God luvs America

Yep, NIAID & Fauci torturing Beagle puppies. Fauci included cutting their vocal cords out, infesting the dogs with ticks, and placing dogs in cages with infectious sandflies.

https://blog.whitecoatwaste.org/2021/11/15/case-study-how-wcw-exposed-the-role-of-anthony-fauci-in-funding-abusive-animal-experiments/


13 posted on 12/05/2022 4:13:12 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Tabusocial

There’s a big difference between animal testing and useless, pointless, inhumane experiments on animals, be it rabbits, mice, rats or Beagle puppies.


14 posted on 12/05/2022 4:16:04 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: lowbridge

This man must be stopped at all costs. Our Democracy is at stake. How can we hold that Democracy together and standby as he does research on giving eyesight to the blind.

Plus he has way too much money and terrible political instincts.


15 posted on 12/05/2022 4:20:52 PM PST by InterceptPoint (Ted, you finally endorsed.)
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To: InterceptPoint

“and terrible political instincts.”

But he has seen the light!


16 posted on 12/05/2022 4:37:07 PM PST by TexasGator (!!!)
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To: Jonty30

“I’ve heard some bad things about the animal tests,”


“Based on low chance of full recovery … and her current poor psychological wellbeing, it was decided that euthanasia was the only appropriate course of action,” Baker wrote colleagues about one of the pigs a day after the surgery, adding a broken heart emoji.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/05/neuralink-animal-testing-elon-musk-investigation


17 posted on 12/05/2022 4:46:47 PM PST by TexasGator (!!!)
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To: Varda
At what cost .

Musk in it for the cash .

Lets torture your pets fist .

18 posted on 12/05/2022 4:56:50 PM PST by ncalburt ( Gop DC Globalists are the evil)
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To: ncalburt

Humans mean more than animals, everyone but low lifes know that.
Musk can’t circumvent the government oversight on medical device research since it’s in the USA. It’s why the USDA has jurisdiction.
Whether they’re trustworthy is another matter.
People against animal research should just die instead of being treated by any method developed this way.
You aren’t the first to think this way. It’s why Hitler used prisoners for medical research.


19 posted on 12/05/2022 5:04:02 PM PST by Varda
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To: ncalburt

But the governments of the world are cruelly allowed to test the fake VAX on human beings.


20 posted on 12/05/2022 5:05:24 PM PST by PrayAndVoteConservesInLibsOut
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