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04-11-2015 02:12 PM |
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Originally Posted by BWillie
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This would be cool if they could actually figure this out, but as others have said you wouldn't be able to move your limbs on your new body could you?
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Nope. The guy behind this is a quack. Reconnecting each individual nerve fiber is highly, highly improbable.
This is such a bull shit article. Basically, this guy is taking a 45 year old study done by Dr Robert White in primates that was unsuccessful and using it as his primary evidence. **** this guy.
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Dr. Hunt Batjer, chairman of neurological surgery at UT Southwestern and president-elect of the American Association for Neurological Surgeons, says White's research is not validation for a human head transplant. "[His evidence is] a 45-year-old reference in a primate and there is no evidence that the spinal cord was anastomosed functionally," he says. Batjer further explains that it's a great leap to go from brain survival of the surgery to restoring body function, which White did not look at.
This is an impossibility, according to Batjer. He conceded that the airway, the spine, the major veins and arteries, can all be put back together, but the spinal cord is the problem. He says the result would be the inability to move or breathe.
"I would not wish this on anyone, I would not allow anyone to do it to me, there are a lot of things worse than death," Batjer says.
The science isn't there to support this, says Arthur Caplan, Ph.D., director of medical ethics at NYU Langone Medical Center. He says it's nothing more than a big PR stunt, and calls Canavero "nuts."
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Doctors will attempt a head transplant
(https://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=291821)