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Thank you for your response. I do have some domain knowledge as it seemed to be a crude form of ECMO (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extracorporeal_membrane_ox
by Herodotus38 8y ago
Thank you for your response. I do have some domain knowledge as it seemed to be a crude form of ECMO (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extracorporeal_membrane_oxygenation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extracorporeal_membrane_oxyg...) , but it made me dig deeper into the history of extracorporeal perfusion. I think you will enjoy the link below which has a lot of information about the video.
The scientist in the beginning of the film is the famous physiologist Haldane, which is why I originally believed the video. However your response led me to find out he was a Marxist! Now I was torn and had doubts.
Turns out that while the film was propaganda aimed toward Western Scientists, it was real and did work.
http://perfusiontheory.com/who-really-invented-the-heartlung-pump-and-ecpr/ http://perfusiontheory.com/who-really-invented-the-heartlung...
- theonemind 8y agoThanks for the link! It was interesting. I could never really figure out if it was real. Seems pretty advanced for the time. I definitely didn't know about ECMO.
- ItsMe000001 8y ago> However your response led me to find out he was a Marxist! You say that as if you just found out he was a member of ISIS and killed women and children by burning them alive. I can't find anything in Karl Marx' teachings that could cause such a response, even when you disagree with him completely.
- Herodotus38 8y agoI think there is a misunderstanding about what is surprising, I'd be just as surprised if he was an Ayn Rand card-carrying objectivist (is that what they call themselves?). My surprise was that I didn't think Haldane would have any political bias to cause doubt about the authenticity of the video.