There was an experiment at my uni that involved opening up live kitten skulls and attaching electrodes to their open brains. They got PhD student applications.

Trust me there’s always someone whose marks are low enough and who’s desire to be a scientist is high enough.

I don’t think this is a particularly problematic experiment if proper ethics procedures are taken, we do shit to brain tissue all the time.

Of course proper procedures were not taken.

It blows my mind that these types of studies are being approved by Research Ethics Boards at Universities. I get that start ups aren’t accountable, but these REBs are people that have the power to shut down this kind of research and just don’t.

Same way they eat lunch I imagine. They don’t consider them important enough to be able to suffer.