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Oh my God! He's forcing disabled people to undego his experiments?!
Oh wait, what's that? They're all volunteers? They're all willing to go through with it despite all the risks? Oh, and what else is that? The decision to move forward with human trials comes from the experts running the trials and not just Elon himself? Well golly, that sure throws a wrench in my worldview. Guess I'll just ignore all that in favor of keeping my hate boner directed at a single billionaire.
volunteers on false promises will become victims. let Elon get it first if he really believes in it, just like the ocean gate CEO believed in his submarine.
Nobody said they were forcing disabled people to undergo his experiments, where did you get that from?
The same place they forced him to buy NFT's obviously.
For context, I work in biotech. I've worked with animal subjects and human volunteers, and participated in the internal review process. I'm grateful for the guiderails that protect human subjects, and hope they hold up. Because as your comment points out, humans with disabilities are in a very vulnerable position. If experimentalists lack concern and patient consent is their only protection, human subjects will have no guarantees say all that the procedures are safe. These expert reviewers and regulators you mention are the only reason this article is about monkeys and not first round human subjects.