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Surgeon Swears Human Head Transplant Isn't a 'Metal Gear Solid' Publicity Stunt
Jason Koebler writes: Dr. Sergio Canavero wants to become the first surgeon to perform a human head transplant. But some discerning gamers noticed that a doctor shown in the trailer for Metal Gear Solid V looks almost exactly like Canavero, leading some to speculate that it's all a viral marketing campaign for the upcoming game. Canavero, however, filed a sworn affidavit with Italian police in which he said Konami illegally stole his likeness, and that he has nothing to do with the game.
I heard he also named his first son up,up,down,down,left,right,left,right,a,b,select,start. There just might be something to this conspiracy.
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It's not a head transplant .. it's a BODY transplant.
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In that case, Dr. Mehmet Cengiz Öz will certainly be recommending on his next show as a miracle weight loss technique.
He declared on April 20 that he received an email from the UK with a link to the YouTube trailer of the game containing his likeness. He thinks they used a video of him from a TED conference as the basis and retouched it. He subsequently began receiving many harassing phone calls from a UK telephone number. He then says he found an Italian language website about the game with a link to a fraudulent Twitter account in his name (he claims to have no Twitter, Facebook, or other social media accounts).
Medicine has yet to repair a spinal cord injury, but there are people out there who believe some doctor's going to perform a head transplant? Really?
Better: non-donors go to the bottom of the list when they need one themselves.
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
A body transplant will kill the recipient.
The body is ALREADY DEAD. They are planning to use the body of someone killed by a head injury, most likely a motorcycle accident. The head is from someone that would otherwise die because of problems with multiple organs (heart, lung, liver, etc.). Nobody is going to die that wouldn't be dead anyway.
Opposing it has nothing to do with superstition.
It is either superstition or ignorance.
Because the procedure is entirely untested, even in animals! He hasn't even shown he can partially heal a severed spinal cord in a rat using his technique, let alone performing a successful head transplant. I'm all for experimental procedures in extreme cases, but there's a difference between "Ok, we're ready to try this in humans now after a decade of animal and human tissue tests, though you've got a 99% chance of dying anyway" and "What if we replace his burned skin with fruit leather? This propylene glycol will give it sensation and blood vessels, I'm sure of it!"
A body transplant will kill the recipient.
The body is ALREADY DEAD. They are planning to use the body of someone killed by a head injury, most likely a motorcycle accident. The head is from someone that would otherwise die because of problems with multiple organs (heart, lung, liver, etc.). Nobody is going to die that wouldn't be dead anyway.
Opposing it has nothing to do with superstition.
It is either superstition or ignorance.
The problem is that the body views it as a head transplant, and the immune system attacks and kills the head.
This isn't about superstition, and any ignorance is on your own part. This guy has not demonstrated this technique even on a rat, let alone on any sort of primate, and unless he has some super-secret technique (also never demonstrated) for reconnecting the spinal column it's not going to do anything for the guy getting the body attachment.
This isn't how good medical science is performed. This is "mad doctor in his secret underground lair" style research.
Nobody is going to die that wouldn't be dead anyway.
Well no fucking shit buddy. Everybody dies sooner or later. In this case, the patient will die sooner rather than later.
I'm all for pushing medical boundaries, but it needs to be done in a scientific manner. You don't just find some suckers near the end of their life and do wild and crazy experiments on them in the hopes that maybe something accidentally works.
It's been partially tested (on a very unhappy monkey), but I agree that it hasn't been tested enough to prove that it would work reliably for a human.
As long as the operation is a failure, we win either way.
"If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear." - Every fascist, ever
Or be hailed as the greatest surgeon who ever lived.
There is no middle ground with this one.
You are welcome on my lawn.
they stole his head.
OK, ok, lame joke. But at least I'm still ahead. Even my my own one.
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