 20thmaine  | 24 Sep 2016 4:28 a.m. PST |
this doctor thinks : link he has the head donor already – all he needs is the donor body…. |
| Col Durnford | 24 Sep 2016 5:13 a.m. PST |
Yes, but can he transplant two heads on one body? |
| Winston Smith | 24 Sep 2016 6:19 a.m. PST |
Head "donor"?
Seems to me it would be the other way around.
And whose ID does the end product use? |
| StarfuryXL5 | 24 Sep 2016 8:36 p.m. PST |
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| Martin From Canada | 24 Sep 2016 11:08 p.m. PST |
From PZ Meyer's take on this highly unethical and dangerous procedure: link
The "breakthrough" that they're promoting is that after severing the cords, they tried some additional experimental treatments that were supposed to promote regrowth: they injected the site with polyethylene glycol (PEG) and with graphene ribbons. I've used PEG to make hybridomas — it's basically a membrane solvent that allows adjacent cells to fuse with one another. The graphene ribbons act as electrical conductors to allow current to flow across the lesion. I gawp in astonishment that anyone would think this would work, and that any ethical review board would allow them to continue. […] Here's the problem restated in cruder terms. This is a fancy cable with multiple insulated strands running through it — of course, it's nowhere near as complicated as the human spinal cord. It's cut.
Now a friendly electrician tells you he can fix it easily. He's not going to splice each wire together to restore the proper connections, instead, he has an easier solution: he's going to inject acid into the cable to dissolve insulation and encourage the copper wires to fuse, and he's going to fill the cable with an electrically conductive goop that will allow signals to cross the broken end.
I can't see how a functional ERB (Ethics Review Board) would authorize this procedure.
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| Who asked this joker | 25 Sep 2016 5:50 a.m. PST |
If allowed to proceed, this won't end well. |
| Col Durnford | 25 Sep 2016 8:19 p.m. PST |
Before we do head transplants, perhaps we should do more work on fixing existing spinal injuries. |
| Martin From Canada | 26 Sep 2016 6:54 p.m. PST |
Before we do head transplants, perhaps we should do more work on fixing existing spinal injuries. The problem is that this guy thinks that semi-voluntary twitching is good enough… |
| Charlie 12 | 26 Sep 2016 7:15 p.m. PST |
The more I read about this "good" doctor's "experiments" and "theories", the less impressed I am. No ERB that I know of would touch this crap. |
| Great War Ace | 28 Sep 2016 8:36 a.m. PST |
Head transplant. My dirty thoughts had me thinking in a quite different direction. And yes, I was interested…………….. |
| Bowman | 28 Sep 2016 9:13 a.m. PST |
Head transplant. My dirty thoughts had me thinking in a quite different direction. And yes, I was interested…………….. I think they do those already. |
| Gunfreak | 29 Sep 2016 7:15 a.m. PST |
Mabye the doctor should do a brain transplant on him self, as in his brain tranplanted to a wall with the help of a Hollowpoint .45 ACP |
begins to think about terrain for Team Yankee.
