Berbaumer's work was criticized for not being replicable. The German government investigated and found that there had been a selective data selection in the study. Berbaumer has since lost some of his funding, but says he will continue to do research.
A groundbreaking new study claims to have found a way for a fully paralyzed person to communicate entirely via thought. But as we learned in an episode earlier this year, 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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