Musk’s Horrifying Experiments Brain Hacking Monkeys, Humans Next

At the Neuralink Show and Tell, Elon Musk said, “We’ve been working hard to be ready for our first human and obviously we want to be extremely careful and certain that it will work well before putting a device in a human. But we’re submitted, I think, most of our paperwork to the FDA and we’re, we think probably in about six months we should be able to have our first Neuralink in a human.”

Elon is careful to omit the failures of Neuralink and the animal abuse and fatalities caused by testing advanced tech on animals. “We do everything we possibly can to test the devices before,” including killing intelligent animals in captivity. The neuralink device was implanted in various animals first,  “not even going into a human before even going into, uh, an animal.”

Elon Musk basically swallowed his tongue here when he described how careful they were about testing the tech device on animals. “Before we even think of putting a device into an animal, we do everything we possibly can with rigorous benchtop testing. So, we’re not cavalier in putting devices into animals, uh, we’re extremely careful and, uh, we always want the device, whenever we do the implant, if it’s a sheep or a pig or a monkey, to be confirmatory, um, not exploratory.”

Musk says, “we’ve done everything we possibly can with benchtop testing and only then would we consider putting a device in an animal.”

Musk says the implant “lasts for a long time with no, uh, observed ill effect.” This might not be true, according to lab notes from neuralink animal testing which will be revealed later.

“We care a great deal about animal welfare and, um, and uh, I’m pretty sure, like our monkeys are pretty happy.” At least the ones that are still alive. They are plied with fresh fruit to bribe them into playing games like pong with their monkey minds connected to neuralinks.

The first human tests with neuralink will aim to restore vision, even in people who were born blind. “Even if they’ve never seen before, we’re confident that they could see.” The other initial human tests will address the motor cortex and the regions of the spinal cord responsible for movement. The implants will allow these subjects to communicate with their phones using their minds and possibly restore movement in humans that have different types of paralysis. Musk says, “as miraculous as it may sound, we’re confident that it is possible to restore full body functionality to someone who has a severed spinal cord.”

The possible benefits of neuralink are undeniable. If humans survive the testing process, the implanted tech device could improve countless human lives. The possibilities are almost tearful to imagine, a blind person from birth being able to see again or a person that was resigned to live a life in paralysis could have a new opportunity to live an active life, communicate and move freely. The possibilities, as Musk says, are miraculous. But the miracle has come at a great cost to the neuralink animal test subjects.

The Daily Mail obtained lab documents from an anonymous worker at neuralink. The documents expose abuse of animals, sicknesses caused by the implanted devices, and torturous agonizing deaths of extremely intelligent animals.

The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) has filed a lawsuit and a federal complaint against the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) for hosting egregious animal experiments for Neuralink. PCRM has called on the US Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA) to investigate “apparent egregious violations of the Animal Welfare Act related to the treatment of monkeys used in invasive brain experiments.”


A document from PCRM states the animals “suffered infections from the implanted electrodes placed in their brains” and an “unapproved substance known as ‘BioGlue’ that killed monkeys by destroying portions of their brains.”

PCRM asserts that UC Davis and Neuralink “failed to provide for the psychological well-being of monkeys assigned to the experiment. Macaque monkeys used in the experiment were caged alone, had steel posts screwed to their skulls, suffered “facial trauma,” seizures following brain implants, and recurring infections at implant sites. In some cases, as a result of deteriorating health, Neuralink and UC Davis euthanized monkeys before they were even used in the planned experiment.”

According to the lab notes from the experiments done on monkeys, Animal 21, a 7-year-old macaque, had her skull drilled on two sides of her cranium, she then received two electrode implants and had the cranial sealant filled into the burr hole sites, known as ‘BioGlue.’ Two days after this double procedure, the macaque began to experience ill effects. The scientists observed the monkey vomiting, gasping and retching, and “then deep breaths as she appeared to collapse from exhaustion/fatigue.” Only days after this procedure the macaque was euthanized. The necropsy showed the monkey’s failing health was caused by the BioGlue and caused internal brain bleeding.

Other monkeys unfortunately met similar fates as poor Animal 21. The invasive and deadly brain experiments were conducted on 23 monkeys.

Musk says the implant “lasts for a long time with no, uh, observed ill effect.”

To read more of the lab notes for free see this article by the Daily Mail

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