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[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 41 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Nope. No. Fuck that. That is the kind of thing that makes my skin crawl. Do not mess with brains. We don't know enough yet to ethically mess with brains in that way

The brains are already almost devoid of the coordinated neural firing necessary even for minimal consciousness, says Brendan Parent, a bioethicist at New York University Langone Health and one of six ethicists on Bexorg’s advisory board. But the company also forestalls any electrical activity with the anesthetic propofol, among other measures.

There's no way we know enough about brains to know that for sure

Car adds that because the brains lack electrical activity, they may not indicate whether a drug will cause seizures, although the company plans to eventually remove the anesthesia from some brain slices. Car says other models can fill in the gaps.

FUCK YOUUUUU

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

ethicists

Zero trust in American, British, German, or French ethicists; zero trust in ethicists from pro-Israel\colonial nations

[–] Keld@hexbear.net 10 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

Ethicist, especially bioethicist, is a job yhat specifically involves justifying experiments. You don't hire an in-house ethicist to tell you no.

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 4 points 21 hours ago

So basically the scientific equivalent of Western journalism

[–] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Car adds that because the brains lack electrical activity, they may not indicate whether a drug will cause seizures, although the company plans to eventually remove the anesthesia from some brain slices. Car says other models can fill in the gaps.

that's nice

popuko-gun

[–] Keld@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago

Listen if you cant experiment on a post morten "Brain slice" with no electrical activity you just can't touch neurons period.