Is This a Breakthrough in Science and Technology?

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It's the first time a fully paralyzed person is able to communicate at this lengthe. People who are family relatives av a lort of hope regarding this technology, because suddenly they see this as ability to finally communicate even if it's very slow. A lot of scientists question a, nils borbamer and da chadari specifically. And so i think there are good reasons to this sort of take thus with a big grain of salt.

A groundbreaking new study claims to have found a way for a fully paralyzed person to communicate entirely via thought. But the scientists behind it have a checkered past.

This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Tori Dominguez and Laura Bullard, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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