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[Rick]

Depraved .

[Andrew]

The practice of dissecting and plasticizing cadavers is not new. Scientists first did this for educational purposes. I believe the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia, USA, has displayed some of these original examples.

Needless to say, this precedent does not excuse the practice of grave robbing (even in the name of science), nor the purient interest generated therefrom.

[ariel]

There is a major difference in the use of cadavers for educational/scientific purposes and contorting a dead body to twist the Hula Hoop for $40 a pop.
Students in medical schools are taught respect for the dead body and gratitude to the donor. No levity is allowed or tolerated.
Studies of skeletons of native people is important for anthropological purpose; having finished the measurements and having created computer-controlled plastic copies, the bones are returned to the tribe if requested.
Buying corpses from the Third World countries to create an anatomic Disneyland is abhorrent and no justification can be advanced for this sacrilege. The unspoken "mitigation" that those people were " natives" and, horror of horrors, poor strikes me as the worst example of racism and denial of humanity. Would anybody in his right mind take his kids to such a show?
This is NOT science and NOT education!
I am surprised that there is no legal action yet to ban these "exhibitions".
It is currently in New York, the world capital of liberalism and political correctness.

[Andrew]

Originally Posted by ariel

There is a major difference in the use of cadavers for educational/scientific purposes and contorting a dead body to twist the Hula Hoop for $40 a pop.
Students in medical schools are taught respect for the dead body and gratitude to the donor. No levity is allowed or tolerated.
Studies of skeletons of native people is important for anthropological purpose; having finished the measurements and having created computer-controlled plastic copies, the bones are returned to the tribe if requested.
Buying corpses from the Third World countries to create an anatomic Disneyland is abhorrent and no justification can be advanced for this sacrilege. The unspoken "mitigation" that those people were " natives" and, horror of horrors, poor strikes me as the worst example of racism and denial of humanity. Would anybody in his right mind take his kids to such a show?
This is NOT science and NOT education!
I am surprised that there is no legal action yet to ban these "exhibitions".
It is currently in New York, the world capital of liberalism and political correctness.

I was pointing out that the technology and practice have legitimate origins.

I thought this comment needed no further explantion:

Needless to say, this precedent does not excuse the practice of grave robbing (even in the name of science), nor the purient interest generated therefrom.