You make good points, for sure. But a couple not so much. >>funded completely by my tax dollars I'm pretty sure he has invested considerable amounts of his own money as well.. >>So a brain implant will help someone who's spine has been severed? That isn't how it works. Severed? No, probably not. But not every person with paralysis has a severed spine. Sometimes it's just a shitty connection. >>help the eye which has gone through some series of irreparable degenerations If they do figure out how to repair it then it will no longer be irraparable. Anyhow, yes, I see your points. But you have to admit that he does do good things and has radically changed the world and it's not all for the worse. Not all for the better either, that's for sure.