Elon Musk’s Neuralink has been accused of allowing and enabling animal cruelty in its labs for years, but the company is not the first to sacrifice heaps of animals on the altar of brain-computer interface science.
In fact, the US government may have a worse body count over many decades, even though Neuralink has reportedly killed more than 1,500 animals along the way, including monkeys, pigs, and sheep while developing its brain chip.
In some of the worst cases,