Exactly how this counts as a “transplant” is anyone’s guess.
There was also his “successful” rat head transplant, which involved grafting a severed rat head onto a different rat, a living one that still had its head. So, it was a successful procedure, if you consider paralysis, lack of consciousness and a lifespan of less than a day as indicators of “success”. But did he? While the monkey head did apparently survive the procedure, it never regained consciousness, it was only kept alive for 20 hours for “ethical reasons” and there was no attempt made at connecting the spinal cord, so even if the monkey had survived long-term it would have been paralysed for life. But, how are we defining “successful” here? Canavero’s definition seems to be extremely “generous” at best.įor instance, he recently claimed to have “successfully” performed a head transplant on a monkey. Many of Canavero’s previous appearances in the media have been accompanied by claims of successful head transplant procedures.
Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images These “successful” procedures are anything but
Even the fictional Dr Frankenstein had a better success rate.
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