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.
7 Comments
DreamAccountant@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 269d
Maybe they should take an ethics class after being stripped of their degrees. WTF?
WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org · 3 pts · 269d
If people cared that would put a knife in capitalism and marketing.
remotelove@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 269d
You don't know much about Russian scientists, do you? You can google Vladimir Demikhov on your own.
Wren@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 269d
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.
remotelove@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 269d
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.
Wren@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 269d
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.
altphoto@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 263d
The guy in the photo looks like "yes! We did it! Finally we have pigeons that we can control remotely!"