Talk:Kagome Kagome/@comment-25218306-20140724025407

I have a lot of innacuracies to point out, and frankly, I find it ridiculous that this story is actually passed off as factual.

1. "...wasn't located in the brain, but in the cerebellum..." Th e cerebellum is a part of the brain.

2. "Needless to say, brain surgery was incredibly difficult during those times, but it was possible." This is possibly the worst wording a statement about neurosurgery during the 30s/40s time period could have. A better way to describe it would be that lobotomy and similar incapacitating psychosurgeries were first being introduced at this time. More accurately, the time this exact story is set in would predate lobotomy, but leucotomy would have been introduced. The important point here is that neurosurgery was not understood at this time period and would, most of the time, have very harmful effects on the patient. Basically, nobody knew anything about it then.

3. Although this is obviously fiction, I'd like to point out that German scientists did not ever conduct experiments in Japan. The Imperial Japanese Army did conduct lethal human experiments during WWII, however none of these were related to the brain.

4. It is stated that they found the 'kill switch' was located in the cerebellum because the cerebellum controls involuntary actions (specifically, this story says "sub-conscious activity" but that is false, and was most likely a miswording). However, there was absolutely no research that showed the cerebellum had control over anything other than motor functions until about the 1990s, obviously much later than this time period.

5. German scientists and Russian scientists worked together during WWII? The implausibility of this should require no explanation.

6. Death and being comatose are regarded as the same thing? A coma is just an extended period of unconsciousness, the person is most definitely alive.

7. I really hope I've misinterpreted the bit about Russian scientists using Frankenstein's theories. Frankenstein was not a real person, and even if he was, he would have been alive during the 1800s, not this time period.

8. It would be much more than ridiculous to enter through the forehead when conducting surgery on the cerebellum. The same goes for the other variants.

9. "In early 1945, Hiroshima is bombed, Germany forfeits, and the experiments are ground to a halt." Experimentation would have ended before the bombing, as by that point it was clear that Germany was badly losing the war.

In conclusion, I'm offended that this is presented as a true story. It is hideously scientifically inaccurate, not to mention historically inaccurate as well. Neuroscience, inhumane experiments, and WWII history are some of my favorite topics to read about, be it fiction or nonfiction, but this was more than just disappointing. I give it a 1/10.