Temple University’s Dr. Leah Croll joins TheStreet to discuss whether or not Elon Musk is the right person to be leading Neuralink into the future.
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00:00 And at the top of all these relationships, the legal community, the scientific community,
00:04 the neurological community, is a man who is at times very, he could be socially volatile,
00:11 he could be wildly unpredictable, he could be painted as brilliant, he could be painted
00:15 as a madman by others.
00:18 Is there hesitancy, I wonder, to entrust someone like Elon Musk of all people with something
00:23 so important and something like this?
00:25 Yeah, and by the way, in fairness to Elon Musk, there's hesitancy entrusting this to
00:32 anyone because we're talking about manipulating people's brains and changing their lives.
00:37 And so neurologists like myself in the years to come are really going to be on the lookout
00:42 for rigorous clinical trials.
00:44 The FDA will have a part in reviewing clinical trial data as well.
00:47 And what this will allow us to do is take a look at the patients who have gone through
00:51 these procedures, take a look at the data and analyze it in an objective way so that
00:55 we can come together as a community to understand whether or not this is a reasonable, safe
01:00 treatment to offer people.
01:02 Finally, Leah, what part of this conversation do you think is either being misrepresented
01:08 or is not being understood enough by those of us on the outside seeing the headlines,
01:15 talking about the headlines?
01:16 What do you want the general public to really know based on your many years of expertise?
01:22 So the big thing here is I see a lot of chatter on the internet about what the implications
01:27 could be in terms of using this technology to take healthy people and enhance their normal
01:32 function.
01:34 And that is an ethical can of worms, number one.
01:36 But number two, I don't want people to lose sight of the heart of this story, which is
01:41 that neurologic disease is absolutely devastating and life changing.
01:45 Anyone who's watching who has experienced it themselves or has a loved one who's gone
01:49 through it knows exactly what I'm talking about.
01:51 And I just want people to focus on the fact that this is science, technology, medicine,
01:56 innovation coming together to help people in just an immensely powerful way.
02:00 And that means a lot.
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