You're making an awful lot of assumptions to arrive at your conclusion. You have exactly as much evidence as is provided in the article and therefore can't make

You're making an awful lot of assumptions to arrive at your conclusion. You have exactly as much evidence as is provided in the article and therefore can't make the claim that he did not. Of your points above, only point 1 is based in any sort of fact which relies on a current understanding of how a human heart functions. Therefore, the point you're making is that a human heart cannot be consciously stopped because a human heart cannot be consciously controlled. With the current data you've been provided all you can do is conclude that the test was flawed, not that what the test suggested was true or false.