Head transplant, Canavero: “ I identify myself in Victor Frankenstein ”

The first Head transplant on a man was announced a few days ago by Sergio Canavero, neurosurgeon at the Molinette hospital in Turin. The professor, who claims to have developed a revolutionary technique for this intervention that has the stunning, will perform the operation in China at the Medical University of Harbin, in December 2017.

Canavero intervened on the microphones of the “Genetica Oggi” broadcast conducted by Andrea Lupoli on Radio Cusano Campus, broadcaster of the Niccolò Cusano University (www.Unicusano.IT).

“I identify myself in the figure of Victor Frankenstein – said Canavero-. I am for life, although not being a Catholic. Science and life are connected, medicine also means giving life.

I confirm that if there are no problems, the transplant will take place in December 2017 “.

“The vast majority of what is published today is absolutely irrelevant from a scientific point of view – explained Canavero-. The model of animal experimentation has failed. 95% of all animal studies made, have not brought anywhere. We have followed all the biomedical articles published in the main scientific journals in the last 20 years, no article has led to something.

The problem is that if this type of research was blocked, consequently many professors would be fired from the universities, those who publish articles in the magazines would be fired, etc … in short, it is all a vicious system. There are also the pharmaceutical companies that have followed a wrong model that is that of the research on the animal at all costs and have failed. The head or body transplant is the culmination of the tests that western medicine has failed.

Looking at the sick who died, I looked inside and said: just lies, you have to recognize that we failed and do something concrete “.