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jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

The Harvard Medical School has been selling donated corpses and body parts for hundreds and thousands of dollars. Equally disgusting is the fact that one of the buyers uses the body parts to make creepy creations to sell to the public. One sale was listed as "Head #7."

More evidence of why Klaatu came here to warn humans to start behaving themselves.

Smitty Blackstone Loc: NY or Jupiter

Gort!
Klaatu barada nikto.

cliff Hilbert Loc: Plano, TX

What was more disgusting was the picture of the guy who was selling the parts, his face is one-half tatoos - really looks horrible.

cahale Loc: San Angelo, TX

jerryc41 wrote:

The Harvard Medical School has been selling donated corpses and body parts for hundreds and thousands of dollars. Equally disgusting is the fact that one of the buyers uses the body parts to make creepy creations to sell to the public. One sale was listed as "Head #7."

More evidence of why Klaatu came here to warn humans to start behaving themselves.

How much are they paying wholesale? And do they take politicians?

flip1948 Loc: Hamden, CT

jerryc41 wrote:

The Harvard Medical School has been selling donated corpses and body parts for hundreds and thousands of dollars. Equally disgusting is the fact that one of the buyers uses the body parts to make creepy creations to sell to the public. One sale was listed as "Head #7."

More evidence of why Klaatu came here to warn humans to start behaving themselves.

I believe the director of the morgue at the medical school and his wife were arrested for selling them to resellers.

I saw a request from one of their resellers...said brains!

Canisdirus

School had no knowledge it was going on.

It was a low totem morgue manager...trying to make other ppl's ends...meet.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Canisdirus wrote:

School had no knowledge it was going on.

It was a low totem morgue manager...trying to make other ppl's ends...meet.

The people at the top: "We had no knowledge of this." When they get to the top, the first thing they have to do is memorize that sentence. Blame it on a secretary, a janitor, or an intern.

Canisdirus

jerryc41 wrote:

The people at the top: "We had no knowledge of this." When they get to the top, the first thing they have to do is memorize that sentence. Blame it on a secretary, a janitor, or an intern.

The guy ran the place...manager...not secretary.

I'm willing to give Harvard the benefit of the doubt.

fourlocks Loc: Londonderry, NH

cahale wrote:

How much are they paying wholesale? And do they take politicians?

Give it another week and there'll be a few available on eBay or Craig's List at half the price.

mr spock Loc: Fairfield CT

Canisdirus wrote:

The guy ran the place...manager...not secretary.

I'm willing to give Harvard the benefit of the doubt.

IMHO Harvard, Yale etc are no longer the standard bearers of honesty. They like almost everything else these days have been politicized.

Chiroman8

jerryc41 wrote:

The Harvard Medical School has been selling donated corpses and body parts for hundreds and thousands of dollars. Equally disgusting is the fact that one of the buyers uses the body parts to make creepy creations to sell to the public. One sale was listed as "Head #7."

More evidence of why Klaatu came here to warn humans to start behaving themselves.

Jerry,

Sorry now to say the public will now suffer because of future donations because of money & greed !

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Chiroman8 wrote:

Jerry,

Sorry now to say the public will now suffer because of future donations because of money & greed !

Definitely! Would you want your skull lit up with a lightbulb inside it on Halloween? Unfortunately, money and greed run the world. "Love makes the world go round." Sure, it does.

Tom Bar

Unfortunately, we cannot sell politicians for more than $2.50

Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

jerryc41 wrote:

The Harvard Medical School has been selling donated corpses and body parts for hundreds and thousands of dollars. Equally disgusting is the fact that one of the buyers uses the body parts to make creepy creations to sell to the public. One sale was listed as "Head #7."

More evidence of why Klaatu came here to warn humans to start behaving themselves.

Years ago, when I was about 15 years old I would go to Wards of California (located in the old Cannery Row on Monterey Cali), a scientific supply house. Fully preserved cadavers were listed for sale in the catalogue for about $150 but of course you had to have a permission letter from an institution to purchase there. Yes, I a high school student had such a letter from The Hopkins Marine Station. That was the mid 1960's. Most cadavers are now supplied 5 to 6 per 55 gallon drum in formaldehyde and are shipped from India, a plentiful supplier of such items.

Though you might like some additional info.

I worked at MD Anderson in Houston (University of Texas, MD Anderson Tumor and Cancer Research Insitute) for seven years and was assigned to the Department of Pathology were I spent many hours working with Pathologists Doctors. I was involved with hundreds of autopsies while there, in that entire time I never once witnessed nor ever heard of anyone disrespecting the dead. Alive or deceased, they are all patents and receive the same attention and respect no matter what.

Do not overreact to this post, The Harvard Medical School is one of the most respected medical schools in the world and I am certain there is no abuse of any patent at that institution.

elee950021 Loc: New York, NY

jerryc41 wrote:

The Harvard Medical School has been selling donated corpses and body parts for hundreds and thousands of dollars. Equally disgusting is the fact that one of the buyers uses the body parts to make creepy creations to sell to the public. One sale was listed as "Head #7."

More evidence of why Klaatu came here to warn humans to start behaving themselves.

Hi All!

Another disgusting medical issue has been the sale of Henrietta Lacks' cancer cells which were taken without her or her family's knowledge or permission! She died in 1951 of cervical cancer but her cells remain alive in thousands of research projects to this day.

What's more disgusting is that the medical establishment didn't acknowledge the use of her cells until 1973 and has not paid a penny to her estate or family while the original cells have been propagated and sold to others for continuing research. We're talking about millions and millions of $$$!

See: https://www.newscientist.com/people/henrietta-lacks/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/mar/31/henrietta-lacks-cancer-research-genome

Be well! Ed