Does the hand transplant atrocity anecdote recently told and written about by Prof. Simon Baron-Cohen in his new book and also in an interview with New Scientist magazine seem believeable to me after watching this news story? No it does not.
A Helping Hand.
Reporter Charles Wooley
60 Minutes (Australia)
May 1st 2011
http://video.au.msn.com/watch/video/a-helping-hand/xocn1fp
2 comments:
We must also remember that in the 9-hour operation in Australia the object was to replace one hand with another of the same configuration, not a left/ right interpolation, (or even two interpolations!)
Ole
Compared to the feat of unnecessarily sadistic surgery described by Prof. Baron-Cohen, the Aussie op would have been as easy as falling off a log!
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