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Well I was expecting some horror movie stuff with the headline Terrible Things. Monkeys fighting hallucinations or endless screaches of pain for no apparent reason.
This is just boring old paralysis and brain swelling. Poor monkeys.
True. The headline is sensationalist. It’s not unusual to have these types of effects from medical device testing, animals scratching at scars etc. but that doesn’t excuse the outright lying from Musk. These people signing up for the trial are insane.
He's testing it on paralyzed people, so they're probably depressed and desperate. It's kind of like he's trying to help, but it could be seen as sleazy because he knows these people will try anything to fix their situation.
"He's testing it on paralyzed people"
He's exploiting paralyzed people under the guise of trying to help them.
Hes experimenting on the disabled.
I mean, at some point a treatment for the disabled has to be tested on the disabled.
There's a lot wrong with Musk, but testing a medical device on the target patients is hardly unethical.
It is at the current stage. That is the point.
When some stupid high percentage of animal test subjects die from the test, you would think they'd work on the product more before moving forward. Instead they're like "welp caused paralysis and death in the majority of our animal test patients, this is totally ready for human tests!"
I'm not saying their methods aren't flawed, just that testing a medical device on the targeted users is not at all unethical and is a requirement for approval.
Sure, that's what I was saying in the following sentence.
So to phrase this appropriately: you could say the apartheid blood emerald trust fund baby is experimenting with dangerous technology on disabled people because he views them as less than human. I don’t think it can be viewed any other way than sleazy. Besides it’s not like people with disabilities are so desperate they don’t care about their quality of life.