Depending on your veiws this blog may or may not be as morbid as you believe.

Anyways, to clear things up at the very beginning, I am not religious. More of a preservationist, and a darwinist. I don't think the idea of a higher power is out of the question, just that it seems to be improbable. I'm not here to discuss that.

Moving on, I recently went to see a movie, where one of the major plot devices was based on scientific experiments performed by Russian scientist Vladmir Demikhov. If you've seen the movie you should know which i'm talking about, please, if you comment don't mention the movie, as I don't want anyone who hasn't seen and plans to to have it ruined for them.

Anyways, on to the experiments. I watched the videos on Youtube. which you can see

and here (beware these links are graphic, and not recommended for youth. You may need a youtube account to watch one or either). Personally I think what he did was amazing. The prospects of living severed heads, and graffting heads onto another body is amazing. I don't have anything against dogs, or anything (I have two myself), and neither do I condone these experiments by untrained professionals.

Anyways. Scientifically these experiements paved the way for so many medical applications now-a-days; including heart transplants, brain transplants, and even that recent face transplant. Those kinds of operations would not have been possible without these previous experiments.

Now, if you look at some of the comments on the attached Youtube videos there are dozens saying things like "This is cruel and unneccesary", "They should burn in hell because they tried to play the part of God", and "They didn't need to do these kinda things, people should live out their natural lives".

Sure you say those kinds of things now, but think if you were one of the 910,000 Americans that die from heart disease every year. You could just y'know. die. Or you could get a heart transplant. Oh whoooooops. There are none available, because the research was too immoral to perform on a dog, so especially not a human! And really who is to say that they are playing the part of God, when there isn't even proof of God to begin with.

Another common comment was "How can this even be useful when dogs and humans are so different?", this can easily be answered, as Demikhov's research inspired and lead Dr. Robert White (an American, so you can't say these kinds of experiments arn't performed around here), to perform head transplants on monkeys, which we all know are close analogs to the human body. As a supplement, there is now a ban on the testing of Great Apes (Ironically Britain, and the United States do not follow this policy).

On a side note, another horrible experiment that brought justice to the eniter world, and has saved many lives was founded during. Buh buh buh. World War II, by none other than the Nazi Party. During the holocaust, hundreds of concentration camp inmates were dunked into freezing ice water, too see how the body reacts, many test subjects died, but in the process we now know how the body reacts to, and how to stop hypothermia. Which we probably wouldn't be able to learn in any other way.

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