• ashok36@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    All previous animal test subjects died, including the majority that were euthanized at the end of the test period for dissection and study. There was a super high failure rate but let’s not misrepresent what actually happened.

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      8 months ago

      I mean, it’s at the very edge of what science can do and realistically there’s not that much else you could do except test on relatively highly developed animals. You’d kind of expect that to happen, but I don’t see a viable alternative.

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        8 months ago

        Working on the bleeding edge of scientific research does not relieve someone of treating animals with ethical consideration. A “move fast and break things” approach might be good for a startup and maybe even for a rocket company, but that approach isn’t okay if “breaking things” includes living, feeling animals.

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            7 months ago

            Use a fucking EEG device, instead of opening their skulls and messing with their brains.

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              7 months ago

              Huh, it’s almost like that has its limitations and they want to find a way past that or something…….

              Yes let’s just stop at eeg since nothing could possibly advance on that… what an absolutely asinine ignorant fucking viewpoint.

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                  7 months ago

                  Awwwh did someone learn a new word of the day and is trying to use it every chance they get? Even if it doesn’t apply at all?

                  Why are you shilling an inferior product that can’t accomplish the same thing?

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        7 months ago

        We’ve had brain-computer interfaces for DECADES, which didn’t need to be inside the skull. This isn’t bleeding-edge research, it’s just a bloody edge used to kill research subjects.

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          7 months ago

          EEG is an extremely limited tech, they are looking for a way to advance past those limitations.

          We can’t just not advance ever since someone might get hurt, that’s just asinine.