Elon Musk’s Neuralink is under federal investigation for potential animal-welfare violations.
The investigation comes at a time of growing employee dissent about Neuralink’s animal testing Internal staff have complained that the company is rushing animal testing, causing needless suffering and deaths, according to documents reviewed by Reuters.could begin human clinical trials in six months. However, the pace of the company’s research is costing the lives of animals.
US regulations don’t specify how many animals companies can use for research, and they give significant leeway to scientists to determine when and how to use animals in experiments. The rushed schedule, according to one employee, resulted in under-prepared and over-stressed staffers scrambling to meet deadlines and making last-minute changes before surgeries, raising risks to the animals.
The mistakes leading to unnecessary animal deaths included one instance in 2021 when 25 out of 60 pigs in a study had devices that were the wrong size implanted in their heads, an error that could have been avoided with more preparation, according to Reuters. Since 2018, the company has roughly killed about 1,500 animals, including more than 280 sheep, pigs and monkeys
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