Tell Elon Musk to Stop His Cruel Animal Experiments!

Since 2017, Elon Musk's company Neuralink has subjected animals—including monkeys, pigs, rats, and sheep—to invasive, often deadly brain experiments. Through 2020, the company paid $1.4 million to the University of California, Davis, to use its facilities, where experimenters removed portions of monkeys' skulls to implant electrodes in the animals' brains as part of the development of a “brain-machine interface.” Only recently, after the Physicians Committee sued the university, did the troubling details of these experiments begin to come to light.

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The public records revealed that Neuralink and UC Davis staff failed to provide dying monkeys with adequate veterinary care; used a substance known as “BioGlue,” which was not approved for use in these experiments and has been widely known to be toxic to nerve tissue; and failed to provide for the psychological well-being of monkeys assigned to the experiment. Macaque monkeys used in the experiment were caged alone, had steel “pill boxes” screwed to their skulls, and suffered “facial trauma,” seizures following brain implants, and recurring infections at implant sites. In some cases, Neuralink and UC Davis euthanized monkeys because their health deteriorated so much.

While Neuralink is no longer working with UC Davis, it is still conducting experiments on animals at its facilities in California and Texas, and the Physicians Committee is still engaged in a lawsuit to get access to photos and videos of these experiments. Please ask Neuralink to end these cruel experiments and release the photos and videos!