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[-] [email protected] 35 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yah. My BS counter is clicking quite a lot with this one.

You can't force someone into surgery against their will. No hospital or doctor would do that. It would be a major crime. The surgeon, anesthesiologist, who knows how many others, would go to prison! That kind of crime.
The company may have coerced her, with threats of lawsuits. But that's very different. And the article completely avoids any mention of exactly how she was forced to go through with it. If that information was included, it would only make the company look worse. I can't think of why it would be left out, given the narrative they're creating here.

There is a lot missing from this story.
I'd bet she took a some kind of settlement that included payment and a form of NDA.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Your bullshit counter is broken, Steven

here's the link from MIT technology review : https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/05/25/1073634/brain-implant-removed-against-her-will/

here's their imprimatur from the MIT itself : https://news.mit.edu/1995/tech-review-0201

I'd have that clicking checked out

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

The articles point out the company went bankrupt and her doctors advised her to remove the implant. It says she was willing to pay to keep it, and suggests this could have been avoided if another company could have taken over device maintainance.

All of which suggests that the device was removed because it could no longer be maintained, despite her willingness to pay.

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