False memory planted in mouse's brain

The feat will help to reveal how more complex false memories, such as of sexual abuse or alien abduction, can arise in people

Scientists have implanted a false memory in the brains of mice in an experiment that they hope will shed light on the well-documented phenomenon whereby people "remember" events or experiences that have never happened.

False memories are a major problem with witness statements in courts of law. Defendants have often been convicted of offences based on eyewitness testimony, only to have their convictions later overturned when DNA or some other corroborating evidence is brought to bear.

In order to study how these false memories might form in the human brain, Susumu Tonagawa, a neuroscientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his team encoded memories in the brains of mice by manipulating individual neurons. He described the results of the study in the latest edition of the journal Science.

That's a disservice to witches sb.
I can't think of a word for this. I can think of lots of them in strings though.

Another glaring example of how certain people have no fucking respect.
And do the founders think we are dumb enough to think this line of research stops there?

Any testing on animals is sick full stop. And have we really gained anything that's made a huge difference in our lives, things that we absolutely couldn't do without to survive?

Health wise, we're in a worse state than we ever have been.