Posted on 12/06/2022 7:43:17 AM PST by Red Badger
The Biden administration has reportedly launched a federal investigation into one of Elon Musk’s companies over allegations that the company may have violated animal-welfare laws.
The investigation into Neuralink, where Musk serves as CEO, was launched by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Inspector General at the request of a federal prosecutor, Reuters reported.
The neurotechnology company is developing “ultra high bandwidth brain-machine interfaces to connect humans and computers,” according to its website.
The report said that the investigation centers around potential violations of the Animal Welfare Act, which “regulates the treatment of animals in research, teaching, testing, exhibition, transport, and by dealers,” according to the agency.
The report admits that “Neuralink treats animals quite well compared to other research facilities,” according to interviews with employees. Executives at the company have talked of building a “Monkey Disneyland” at one testing facility while wanting the animals to live in a “monkey Taj Mahal” at another location.
A small number of employees at the company have reportedly claimed that Musk’s insistence on pushing for faster times in getting products to the point where they can be tested on humans has led to mistakes in the tests that have been conducted on various animals, including monkeys and pigs.
The employees allege that the mistakes have led to more animals having to be killed because of botched surgeries and because the experiments have to be conducted again. The animals are often killed at the end of the experiments because post mortem analysis is often needed to determine the effectiveness of the experiment.
Some of the mistakes that have reportedly plagued the experiments are simple in nature, like implanting the wrong device or implanting a device in on the wrong vertebra of animals.
The news comes after Musk said last week that he expects a the company’s wireless brain chips to enter human clinical trials within the next six months. The goal of the implants is to help disabled people be able to move and communicate.
“We want to be extremely careful and certain that it will work well before putting a device into a human,” Musk said. “The progress at first, particularly as it applies to humans, will seem perhaps agonizingly slow, but we are doing all of the things to bring it to scale in parallel. So, in theory, progress should be exponential.”
Right on cue.
Musk needs to launch an investigation into the Brandon administration and its place in the global pedophile society.
Right on cue.
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Lawfare gonna lawfare
but why so much intensity against him? after all he is not even orange
Exactly. That’s how a Fascist Government works. Destroy your opposition using every possible tool.
Weaponizing the freaking DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE?
Words fail me.
Desperation is all they got.
“By any means necessary.”..............................
Of course he is.
Of course they have.
Certainly better than Fauci and his beagles.
“but why so much intensity against him? after all he is not even orange”
Anti-woke
Anri-union
Endorsed DeSantis
This article is biased. This investigation into Neuralink started some months ago and was requested by a professional researchers/animal rights group. It is not in relation to anything currently going on with Twitter and was not initiated by Biden.
It also wasn’t a “few” employees, but employees reporting horror-show type experiments leaving animals to “suffer and die.” For example, one of the monkeys, after getting operated on during what is described as a “shoddy” experiment, began vomiting uncontrollably for 24 hours and died of exhaustion.
The employees state that Musk, who apparently operates like he actively hates his own employees, through threats and unreasonable timetables, disregards the health and safety of the animals in order to hasten human trials.
I’ll also add that nothing Nueralink is doing is unique or all that innovative. His claims of Nueralink inevitably leading to Matrix style insta-learning, thermal vision in patients, etc etc., is a bunch of sci fi BS he is investing on the fly. And what the link can do NOW is something scientists have been able to do for decades. Musk’s presentation of the monkey controlling a video game with its mind, for example, had already been done in 2004. Musk’s team simply plagiarized the work of scientists from 18 years ago.
Gangster government is so cool!
Fauci knows if you want to perform horrific experiment on animals you outsource it. Big corporations know to give 10% to the big guy. But now that Elon owns Twitter Biden and the democrats are going to destroy him. Worse than what they are doing to Trump I am afraid.
“but why so much intensity against him? after all he is not even orange”
5. He told the EU to shove their censorship rules where the sun don’t shine.
6. Starlink
I have suspected this for a very long time.
The strong arm in the DNC is NOT the Clintons.
Its Biden and those who work for him.
This is why the GOP’e has never went toe to toe with Biden.
His team knows where all the bodies are buried.
Musk in line for the Trump Treatment.
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