{"id":1766869,"date":"2022-12-07T18:32:51","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T23:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1766869"},"modified":"2022-12-07T18:32:57","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T23:32:57","slug":"elon-musk-running-tesla-and-twitter-heading-to-mars-and-killing-monkeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-running-tesla-and-twitter-heading-to-mars-and-killing-monkeys\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk: Running Tesla And Twitter, Heading To Mars \u2014 And Killing Monkeys?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Felon-musk-running-tesla-and-twitter-heading-to-mars-and-killing-monkeys%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1766869&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>How does he find the time?<\/p>\n<p>Multibillionaire Elon Musk is busy running the electric vehicle company Tesla, launching rockets into the cosmos via SpaceX as he aims to put a man on Mars, and now he\u2019s the top twit on Twitter, tweeting his little heart out.<\/p>\n<p>But somehow he also oversees a bizarre program to design brain implants for humans \u2014 which new reports say has led to the death of some 1,500 animals on which the devices are being tested.<\/p>\n<p>Musk said last week that a wireless \u201cbrain chip\u201d developed by Neuralink could go into human clinical trials within six months. But a new report says since 2018, the company has killed about 1,500 animals, including more than 280 sheep, pigs and monkeys, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/musks-neuralink-faces-federal-probe-employee-backlash-over-animal-tests-2022-12-05\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The global news agency also said the medical device company \u201cis under federal investigation for potential animal-welfare violations amid internal staff complaints that its animal testing is being rushed, causing needless suffering and deaths,\u201d according to documents reviewed by Reuters and sources familiar with the investigation and company operations.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters also said the the federal probe, which had not been previously reported, was \u201copened in recent months by the US Department of Agriculture\u2019s Inspector General at the request of a federal prosecutor, according to two sources with knowledge of the investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not the first time Neuralink has come under fire. In February, an animal rights group, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), filed a complaint, claiming monkeys have been killed in botched surgeries to implant the chips.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe group alleged that surgeons used the wrong surgical glue twice, which led to two monkeys suffering and ultimately dying, while other monkeys had different complications from the implants,\u201d Reuters reported.<\/p>\n<p>Treatment of monkeys burst into the headlines again last week when the PCRM launched a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcrm.org\/news\/news-releases\/ahead-elon-musks-show-and-tell-doctors-group-reveals-disturbing-truth-behind\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a>.\u00a0The site says Neuralink\u2019s experiments at the University of California, Davis, \u201cresulted in chronic infections, seizures, paralysis, internal bleeding, and declining psychological health.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHundreds of pages of public records revealed animals suffering from sloppy experiments that resulted in chronic infections, seizures, paralysis, internal bleeding, and declining psychological health before they were killed,\u201d the site said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn two separate incidents, experimenters filled holes in monkeys\u2019 skulls with an unapproved adhesive, which seeped through to the animals\u2019 brains. In one monkey, the adhesive caused bleeding in her brain, and she vomited so much from the resulting side effects that she developed open sores in her esophagus,\u201d the PCRM said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen it comes to Neuralink, Elon Musk is just a modern-day P.T. Barnum,\u201d said Ryan Merkley, director of research advocacy with the Physicians Committee. \u201cHe\u2019s a showman who makes big promises while hiding the grisly details from the public. We\u2019re pulling back the curtain on him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk, though, says surgeries on animals are used only at a later stage of research in an effort to confirm that the device works rather than to test early hypotheses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re extremely careful,\u201d he said, to make sure that testing is \u201cconfirmatory, not exploratory,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2022\/12\/06\/musks-neuralink-investigated-over-killing-1500-animals-in-tests-17884516\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to the UK\u2019s Metro.<\/p>\n<p>The federal probe will determine if that\u2019s true.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does he find the time? Multibillionaire Elon Musk is busy running the electric vehicle company Tesla, launching rockets into the cosmos via SpaceX as he aims to put a man on Mars, and now he\u2019s the top twit on Twitter, tweeting his little heart out. 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