Shawn romis: I'm joined by jonathan mowans, freelande science journalist. We're gong to talk about a guy whose name we actually don't know. Noone really knos his name, because for privacy reasons, it's sort of kept secret. But he's the star of this story. Bhese diagnosed with ameotrophic lateral scerosis of a l s. He can move his eyes in horizontal and up and down directions,. So they point at yellow, he says yes, and then they list out each letter, and he says yes or no.
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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