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[–] EelBolshevikism@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

How does one genuinely do an experiment like this without being way too uncomfortable to continue?

[–] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] OgdenTO@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] EelBolshevikism@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

scp ethics council but if it was even more useless

[–] Aradina@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

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