March 11, 2004

Cadavers

Now this is a bit disturbing, and I'm sure that I'd be upset if I thought my body was going to be used as a cadaver at medical school and instead this happened: Bodies donated to [Tulane] medical school were sold to army for landmine tests.

But I wish they'd get the story right. Doesn't it sound at least a little more respectable that the bodies were blown up to test protective gear against landmines and not to test landmines. I don't know... to me that seems like an important distinction that the headline misses.

Posted by richard at March 11, 2004 09:58 PM
Comments

That's nothing. I heard they injected some of the cadavers with syphilis, and then exploded the land mines, to see how well the protective gear worked on cadavers with syphilis.

Posted by: Brad A. at March 11, 2004 10:17 PM

Brad, that's just the story they used to cover up the fact that a deviant medical worker gave syphilis to the cadavers the old fashioned way.

Posted by: Mike F. at March 14, 2004 06:08 PM

I also hear that some of the cadavers will be voting in Florida . . .

Posted by: Brad A. at March 16, 2004 04:14 PM