This is old news, important news nonetheless.
So this article is from Wired from September
20th, 2023, 3 20 p .m. And this is the gruesome
story of how Neuralynx monkeys actually died.
Is it old age? Don't ruin the article. Did they
telekinetically bring things down upon themselves?
You know that this is going to have a good end
to it because it's Elon Musk. Elon Musk and monkeys.
What's not to like? Exactly. That's what we're
all thinking going into this. I don't know who
wrote this. Nowhere does it say who wrote it.
Oh, yeah. It was the monkeys. Drev, Mero, Tra,
and Del Cameron. They're right before the date.
Those are monkey names if I've ever heard monkey
names. It's true. Fresh allegations of potential
security fraud have been leveled at Elon Musk
over statements he recently made regarding the
deaths of primates used for research at Neuralink,
his biotech startup. Letters sent this afternoon
to top officials at the U .S. Securities and
Exchange Commission, SEC, by a medical ethics
group, called on the agency to investigate Musk's
claim that monkeys who died during the trials
at the company were terminally ill and did not
die as a result of neurolingue implants. They
claim, based on veterinary records, that complications
with the implant procedures led to their deaths.
Musk first acknowledged the deaths of the macaques?
Yeah. On September 10th, in a reply to a user
on a social networking app, Axe, formally Twitter,
I hate how you have to say that now. You know,
you can just say Twitter. Yeah, I quit. He denied
that any of the deaths were a result of a Neuralink
implant and said the researchers had taken care
of two select subjects who were already close
to death. Relatedly, in a presentation last fall,
Musk claimed that Neuralink's animal testing
was never exploratory, but was instead conducted
to confirm fully formed scientific hypothesis
we are extremely careful he said assumption right
that he was extremely careful yeah that's why
you don't need to regulate almost dead of monkeys
yeah exactly he's very careful yeah oh yeah public
records reviewed by wired and interviews conducted
with a former neurolink employee and a current
researcher at the university of california davis
primate center paint a wholly different picture
of neurolinks animal research the documents These
records include reginary records first made public
last year that contain gruesome portrayals of
suffering reportedly endured by as many as a
dozen of Neuralink's primate subjects, all of
whom needed to be euthanized. These records could
serve as the basis for any potential SEC probe
into Musk's comments about Neuralink, which has
faced multiple federal investigations as the
company moves towards its goal of releasing the
first commercially available brain -computer
interface for humans. Letters to the SEC come
from the Physicians Committee for Responsible
Medicine, a non -profit striving to abolish live
animal testing. The group claims that Musk's
comments about the primate deaths were misleading,
that he knew them to be false, and the investors
deserve to hear the truth about the safety and
thus the marketability of Neuralink's speculative
product. They are claiming they are going to
put a safe device on the market and that's why
you should invest. That was in quotes. And also
not community. Yeah, most importantly thing or
is it yeah. Oh, yeah, that's more important than
profit in this situation and monkeys I was supposed
to be in quotes. So I'm gonna follow the quotes
by right monkeys unionize. You should I mean
if anybody here need it too, but the monkeys
need it more for all you monkeys listening unionize
and writing who leads the Physicians Committee's
research into animal testing alternatives tells
Wired, quote, and we see his lie as a way to
whitewash what happened in these exploratory
studies, end quote. Musk posts on Twitter about
Neuralynx monkeys have been viewed more than
760 ,000 times, all of us. The way I read that
number, that made me proud. I usually can't do
that. And the Physicians Committee notes in its
letters that when the SEC charged Musk with securities
fraud related to Tesla in 2018, the agency argued
that his account was a source of investor news.
The SEC has jurisdiction over the sales of any
securities, including those offered by privately
held companies such as Neuralink. Recent filings
show the company has raised more than $280 million
from outside investors. The SEC declined Wires'
request to comment on the Physicians Committee's
letters. Neuralink did not respond to specific
questions about Musk's claims. That was hard
to say. Putting an S on the end of Musk is just
a tongue twister. Or request for comment about
the physician's committee's allegations. Within
a year, it's not funny. It's a real tongue twister,
I agree. Musk's. Within a year of its reported
founding in March 2017, Neuralink acquired a
large number of animal subjects to test its brain
chimp implant. Brain chip. That was not intended
that I said chip. Yeah, brain chip in the chimp.
from september 2017 until late 2020 yeah by chance
could you have been misreading it the whole time
and they're actually putting monkeys inside of
humans brains i wouldn't mind i would actually
brain chimp for that yeah maybe brain chimp now
they're gonna go crazy in there what a twist
this article really took a turn you just gotta
read it right From September 2017 until late
2020, the company's experiments were aided by
the staff of the California National Primate
Research Center, CNPRC, a federally funded bio
research facility at UC Davis. Bus promise was
to revolutionize... an engineering implant that
would allow human brains to communicate wirelessly
with artificial devices, even each other. UC
Davis veterinary records cited by the Physicians
Committee, which Wired also obtained through
a subsequent California public records request,
chronicle a battery of complications that developed
following procedures involving electrodes being
surgically implanted into monkeys' brains. The
complications included bloody diarrhea, partial
paralysis, and cerebral edema. edema a condition
colloquially known as brain swelling for example
oh man trigger warning in an experimental surgery
that took place in december 2019 performed to
determine the survivability of an implant an
internal part of the device broke off while being
implanted overnight researchers observed the
monkey identified only as animal 20 this is so
sad by uc davis scratching at the surgical site
which emitted a bloody discharge and yanking
a connector that eventually I'm just gonna move
on I think we get the idea here I don't know
that I can finish that additional veterinary
reports show the condition of a female monkey
called animal 15 during the months leading up
to her death in March 2019 days after her implant
surgery she began to press her head against the
floor for no apparent reason a symptom of pain
or infection a record safe no apparent reason
other than the implant probably is the reason
definitely I'm not a doctor though, so yeah staff
observed that though She was uncomfortable picking
and pulling at her implant until it bled She
would often lie at the foot of her cage and spend
time holding hands with her roommate Animal 15
began to lose coordination and staff observed
that she would shake uncontrollably when she
saw lab workers condition deteriorated for months
until the staff finally euthanized her and necropsy
report indicates that she had bleeding in her
brain and that the neural I just want to make
this sure that I'm getting this right. They could
have removed the neural link, but they euthanized
her. And I'm not saying that would fix anything,
but maybe try that before killing an animal that
you've decided to just number and not even call
the species that it is. Yeah, it's just animal.
I'm gonna just skip past that. I think we get
the idea of the animal. cruelty that's going
on there. Just from that little brief section,
there's more it goes into. I'm guessing seeing
as how you had an animal in the 20s, there's
at least 20 different studies that did not go
well in this scenario. I would assume all of
them went through something. Yeah. If the SEC
does investigate Musk's comments, it would mark
at least the third federal probe linked to Neuralynx
animal testing in December 2022. Routers reported
that the U .S. Department of Agriculture's Office
of Inspector General had launched a probe probe
into Neuralink's treatment of some animal test
subjects. In February 2023, the U .S. Department
of Transportation opened an investigation into
Neuralink over allegations of unsafe transport
of antibiotic -resistant pathogens. These investigations
followed the U .S. Food and Drug Administration
initially rejecting Neuralink's application in
early 2022 for approval to conduct in -human
clinical trials. According to routers, the agency's
major concern involved the device's lithium battery,
as well the possibility that the implant's wires
might migrate to other parts of the brain. This
May, the FDA gave the company approval for human
trials. Those human trials could begin soon.
Yesterday, I mean, I'm just gonna skip to the
end of the article. Oh, we're done. Hey, look
at that! We know by this time that it has been
implanted into humans, obviously. This is an
old article. Chelsea, when you say you have sad
news, you don't pull the punch. I don't even
know that I said I had sad news. I just wanted
to bring it up in light of what's going on with
Elon. I've been seeing it pop up here and there
that he has done some pretty horrific animal
cruelty. So I thought, hey, what better time
to share this than now? Because I didn't actually,
I mean, I guess you really thought about it,
obviously. There's going to be some animal cruelty
in the testing. Well, what person doesn't have
animal cruelty and murder of innocent chimpanzees
in their past? Most, actually. I think pretty
much everybody. Yeah, it doesn't, right? Yeah,
I find it so in a taken a back way, fascinating.
how this guy is like the envy of so much of the
conspiracy world. If you told somebody who is
a conspiracist 10 years ago that there's this
guy trying to put implants in people's brains
and it is killing monkeys left and right, he's
the bad guy. Like everybody's gonna know he's
the bad guy. Can you imagine like Nostradamus
prophesizing what's going on with Elon? But just
like this guy has so many bad things attached
to him and I just don't get how the conspiracy
world isn't catching on to this guy. They've
been terrified of Soros for decades. Musk just
did that times 50 and they're not worried. So
I just find it very hard to say. And one more
thing, I just have to add a conspiracy theory
that I'm just making up on the spot here. Oh,
I love that. So do not take any Credence in it
it might it probably will trump and musk have
both decided. They're very anti -migrant They're
taking them to Guantanamo Bay where we don't
know anything that goes on there monkeys He was
looking to test this on human subjects. I wonder
if we can put two and two together I have more
to say but let's just end that there. No you
keep going No, you can't top it. Okay, that's
okay then. And in any event, you guys got 48
hours. Please try to avoid the ever creeping
gaze of this billionaire that kills monkeys.
Not personally, I don't think, but kills monkeys.
And not only does he kill monkeys, doesn't even
give them a name. Doesn't even give them a name.
Just calls them animal. Yeah. That was sad. That
was even more sad. And let's not get too far
into that, because I have thoughts on that, but
we'll just move on. We'll see you in 48 hours.
Bye. Yeah, okay. Okay, bye. It was best to do
that. Mostly because I was going to say it's
probably best if you're going to murder them
to not name them. That's true. But we don't need
that in there. That would be why he didn't give
him a name, so... That and he's pretty terrible
at naming things. Maybe those were names for
his kids that he never got to give. Maybe it
was the name.