[kcartlidge]

> To avoid this problem, the scientists surgically implanted mice with electrodes and fiber optic filaments. Although the rodents are tethered to a set of cables, they can fall asleep normally while researchers track blood volume, electrical activity, and chemical levels and use light transmitted through the fiber optic lines to activate certain groups of neurons.

I detest this kind of medical research. It's horrific barbarity.

If the output is important enough for this kind of activity to take place, then it's important enough for humans to volunteer to be the subjects. If nobody volunteers then it isn't that important after all. Leave other species out of it.

[bowsamic]

What is the logic behind this? I genuinely don’t understand your moral argument