Hundreds of Monkeys Killed in Botched UC Davis Brain Chip Experiment

Originally posted on Quora October 20, 2022

Today it’s monkeys; tomorrow you might be the unwilling guinea pig. This is absolutely sick

Neuralink, a BMI manufacturing corp cofounded by Musk, paid UC Davis $1 million to use their facilities for secret animal research. After being sued by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), UC Davis admitted to possessing 185 photos of monkeys killed during the Brain chip experiments and admitted that an additional 186 photos, taken by Neuralink employees during the experiment, exist but cannot be released because they are “proprietary” information. PCRM alleges the monkeys were subject to crude surgeries where holes in their skull were filled with some kind of bioglue .

More details are found in this earlier writeup

UC Davis said Neuralink researchers used facilities at the school’s California National Primate Research Center, with university staff providing veterinary care and monitoring of the monkeys. The university said the research protocols were approved by the UC Davis Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, and that the research collaboration with Neuralink ended in 2020.

Records show monkeys were caged by themselves, restrained to a chair for up to five hours per day, and suffered infections, depression, weight loss, extreme gastrointestinal distress and physical trauma, including missing fingers. Some monkeys died during procedures, including device removal, PCRM said the records show

PCRM is suing UC Davis for photos, video and animal disposition records from the experiments. The university has refused to provide them, saying it is not required to under the California Public Records Act.

While animals lack moral agency and the ability to give informed consent, making them the default subject of otherwise unethical research, such barbaric treatment cannot be justified on such specious research grounds under any stretch of the APA Guidelines for Care and Use of Animals in Research. What’s more, the fact that a tax payer funded institution can conceal the results of this research from the theoretical beneficiaries of such research (i.e. the taxpayers) makes this even more appalling. Like all stories of this kind we need to ask why this atrocity has received no fanfare in MSM. Would more widespread knowledge of this event make the public more skeptical of the transhumanist agenda and more hesitant to get on board with similar endeavors in chipping and genetically engineering humans? While Musk and Neuralink have no obvious ties to the WEF they have been praised by WEF shills for pushing BMIs most notably in this glowing PR piece by WEF shill and Neo-Malthusian Peter Singer, who claims Musk’s brain chips will give us extra memory and save us from being replaced by a smarter AI. All hail lord Musk!!!!

Elon Musk's New Venture Seeks to Allow Us to add extra memory to the brain

Notice he glosses over “ethically dubious” research on monkeys (as if he had foreknowledge of research like the aforementioned) and jumps straight to experimenting on humans will be “unavoidable” and explains the need to loosen regulations governing biomedical research in humans.

Update: Concerning Musk’s ties to the WEF it seems I misspoke. Although he does not appear on the official alumni list, he was, in fact, nominated as a young global leader in 2008 along with Anderson Cooper and Leonardo DiCaprio.