United States.- The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), a non-profit organization has reported that at least 15 monkeys out of 23 who were implanted with a brain chip Elon Musk’s Neurolink have died after suffering enormous “suffering” due to this procedure, which according to the businessman has a medicinal purpose.
The complaint of the organization that has the support of more than 17,000 doctors was presented to the administration of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), against University of California, Davisfor violations of the Federal Animal Welfare Law related to invasive and fatal diseases. brain experiments performed on 23 monkeys.
According to the complaint, this university received more than 1.4 million dollars from Elon Musk’s company Neuralink to carry out the experimental procedures on the monkeys.
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine explained that the Neuralink company and the University of California failed to provide adequate veterinary care for the dying monkeys; “They used an unapproved substance known as “Bioglue” that killed the monkeys by destroying parts of their brains and did not provide psychological treatment.”
In this sense, the association explains that the monkeys were subjected to a lot of stress, because they were caged alone, steel posts were screwed into their skulls. For this reason, the macaques suffered facial trauma, seizures, and various infections caused by the implanted chip.
“UC Davis may have turned over its publicly funded facilities to a billionaire, but that doesn’t mean it can evade transparency requirements and violate federal animal welfare laws,” He says Jeremy Beckham, MPA, MPH, research advocacy coordinator with the Physicians Committee.
Beckham added that the documents reveal that the monkeys had their brains mutilated in shoddy experiments and left to die. The researcher affirms that for this reason, it is not strange that Elon Musk and the university want to hide the photos and videos of the experiment from the public.
“The university has refused to release photos and videos, claiming the records belong to Neuralink, a private company that is not subject to the California Public Records Act.”stated PCRM.
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Deborah Dubow Press, Esq., associate general counsel of the Physicians Committee, said that the University of Davis will not be able to protect a private company from public scrutiny since the photos and videos housed in a public institution are public records, so they must be revealed.
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