Physicians Urge Alameda City Council to Reject Proposed Lease for Company Run by Former Elon Musk Partner Who Oversaw Deadly Monkey Experiments
A national medical ethics group is urging the Alameda City Council to reject a proposed lease for a medical device company whose CEO recently oversaw debilitating, deadly experiments on monkeys.
- A national medical ethics group is urging the Alameda City Council to reject a proposed lease for a medical device company whose CEO recently oversaw debilitating, deadly experiments on monkeys.
- The company, Science Corp., has applied to occupy Building 11 at Alameda Point, public property owned by the city, where it plans to conduct experiments on primates, rabbits, and mice.
- Its CEO, Max Hodak, was the co-founder and, until May 2021, president of the brain-computer interface company Neuralink.
- Hodak started Neuralink with Elon Musk, and the company’s experiments on monkeys at the University of California, Davis, from 2017 to 2020 caused public outcry when they were revealed last year by the nonprofit Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.