The Russian neurotechnology company Neiry claims to have begun field testing a flock of pigeons with chips implanted in their brains, allowing researchers to steer the birds from the laboratory into the wild and back. According to reporting by Forbes Russia, Neiry says its operators can upload flight patterns to pigeons by stimulating specific areas of the brain. Neiry spokespeople said that through this process, the bird itself “wants” to fly in the directions chosen by researchers. “There’s no training required: Any animal becomes remotely controllable after the operation,” the company claimed.
The surgeries are performed on a production line with a precision-guided setup that inserts electrodes into targeted regions of the brain. Neiry says its researchers “seek a 100-percent survival rate for the birds undergoing the procedure,” though it did not provide current survival figures.
Apologies for the wikipedia style response. This is how I am.
Demnikov died almost thirty years ago. This is from last week in Canada. Our regulatory bodies have no teeth and legislation is slow to catch up with public sentiment when it comes to animal welfare.
Of course animal (and even human) experimentation happens around the world, even today. Neither is acceptable. (I think that is the point you were trying to make, or, you were trying to pull some classic whataboutism.)
When it comes to batshit crazy animal experiments, Russian scientists set the gold standard for that shit years ago, is my point. Based on this post it continues to this day, it seems.
Part of it is: I’m a nerd for ethical violations in science and medicine. The other part was like, damn, why you talking down to this person like they don’t know about Russian scientists?
The third part was: “Evil doesn’t have borders.” One guy doesn’t really represent a whole country when we have crazy guys all over the place.
Russia isn’t even the first to try remote control animals, so it’s not that crazy by modern science standards. Nano-Mind in Korea and DARPA in the USA are into it, to name two. There were those mind-controlled CIA dogs, too.
Apologies for the wikipedia style response. This is how I am.
Demnikov died almost thirty years ago. This is from last week in Canada. Our regulatory bodies have no teeth and legislation is slow to catch up with public sentiment when it comes to animal welfare.
Even then, the companies who can afford it will just go where it’s cheaper and easier to experiment on people, animals, or whatever. Evil doesn’t have borders.
More medical ethics horrors from around the world, just for fun:
Shitshow asylum featuring Dr. Fear, who tortures patients.
General Shira Ishii practices germ warfare on Chinese prisoners, everyone pretends it didn’t happen.
Non-neurosurgeon gets reprimanded for neurosurgery solo act, invents icepick cheat code to keep fucking with people’s brains. Everyone puts up with it for a while because he’s so damn likeable.
In a remarkable twist, doctor with no scientific ambitions or nefarious plans kills by pure bold incompetence, slides under the radar when no one wants to stir the malpractice pot.
Of course animal (and even human) experimentation happens around the world, even today. Neither is acceptable. (I think that is the point you were trying to make, or, you were trying to pull some classic whataboutism.)
When it comes to batshit crazy animal experiments, Russian scientists set the gold standard for that shit years ago, is my point. Based on this post it continues to this day, it seems.
Part of it is: I’m a nerd for ethical violations in science and medicine. The other part was like, damn, why you talking down to this person like they don’t know about Russian scientists?
The third part was: “Evil doesn’t have borders.” One guy doesn’t really represent a whole country when we have crazy guys all over the place.
Russia isn’t even the first to try remote control animals, so it’s not that crazy by modern science standards. Nano-Mind in Korea and DARPA in the USA are into it, to name two. There were those mind-controlled CIA dogs, too.