cahale wrote:
How much are they paying wholesale? And do they take politicians?
We could only WISH politicians were “on-the-menu”!
elee950021 wrote:
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-genomeBe well! Ed
Hi All! br br Another disgusting medical issue ha... (
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Yes, I've seen reports of that on TV. There is no such thing as something people won't do.
mr spock wrote:
IMHO Harvard, Yale etc are no longer the standard bearers of honesty. They like almost everything else these days have been politicized.
That may be in your opinion.
But I think they are still smart enough not to do something like this knowingly...
I've had enough of this "disgusting" topic.
Smudgey
Loc: Ohio, Calif, Now Arizona
Well, I will throw up now 😭
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.
The school was not selling any bodies but the morgue manager was. Between 2018 and 2022, Harvard’s former morgue manager Cedric Lodge and his wife, Denise, allegedly stole and cut up donor cadavers from the medical school and sold parts of them ― including brains, heads and skin — to buyers in Massachusetts and other states.
The body parts were allegedly bought by Katrina Maclean, Joshua Taylor and Mathew Lampi. Maclean allegedly purchased body parts from Lodge — including two dissected faces — to resell to buyers or in her Massachusetts shop, which largely sells macabre dolls and other oddities. Maclean also allegedly sent skin to suspect Jeremy Pauley to have it tanned to create leather. It is illegal to buy or sell human organs in the United States.
I think Mrsmoses has it right. As for the more prurient versions of this story, its unfortunately too easy to fall for such tales when sensationalized reports come out.
I wonder how many people know this and from where it came.
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