The common cold. Cancer. AIDS. All of that silliness can wait. Science has spent countless hours and untold fortunes in the attempt to address an urgent need and it has finally paid off. The ability to create Frankenstein monsters is here! An Italian scientist claims to have found a way to perform a human head transplant.
Since the 1950s scientists have been performing head transplants on animals (mostly dogs and monkeys), but they never could find a way to connect the two spinal cords. That really makes the whole procedure kind of pointless. You might as well just keep the head in a jar.
Fortunately for this guy, a scientist by the name of Sergio Canavero has developed a method to connect the spinal cords and attach a head to a new body, and thus eliminate the physical limitations experienced by such tortured souls as Master Blaster and Morris the Moose.
I’m sure that those who dedicate their lives to this sort of research are well-intentioned and see this procedure as a possible solution for those who suffer from debilitating diseases like ALS or spinal muscular atrophy. But we all know that once it is available it is going to be used by people like Oprah so they can finally have the body they have coveted for so long.
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