You can't see the applicability in investigating the creation of surface indications of handheld objects on skin being subjected to various degrees of force, or demonstrating a method of investigating that question to the general television viewing public? Not even being slightly sarcastic or insincere here, I'm very curious what qualities qualify something as being 'science' to you. Not being in a lab excludes archaeology, and not publishing your findings to Nature excludes me the unfathomably vast majority of scientists from counting as 'scientists'.
I think I said most of that already, I'm sorry I'm not quite sure what your point is. The risk of getting a prion disease is already extremely low, and even within that the majority of CJD infections are spontaneous. That's sure the consensus in the literature, fwiw. An above average transmission rate would therefore be spectacularly unspectacular, given how few new cases would be needed to achieve that.
In truth there's only ever been one example of Prion disease transmission through cannibalism in humans - Kuru - a disease present in one incredibly tiny population (the Fore) in Paupa New Guinea, once. Incidentally, it was essentially only transmissible if you consumed the brain (or spine) of an infected person, which was the part reserved for young children / pregnant women. Stopping the practice of eating the brain would have effectively eliminated the disease, and conveniently the australian colonial government and local christian missionaries had recently outlawed funerary cannibalism. I'm sure that, by their reputation for extreme tolerance and cultural sensitivity, they would never exaggerate the dangers of cannibalism to back up their claims.
Anyways, no new cases of Kuru have occurred since the Fore stopped practicing funerary cannibalism (voluntarily, once someone stopped just beating them and took the time to explain what was happening) and the disease has essentially been eradicated. So, though it's probably best not to eat another member of your species without checking to make sure they don't have parasites (and hypothetically Creutzfeldt–Jakob's disease. Although there's never been a case of it being transmitted via cannibalism, that's simply because it's vanishingly extreme rarity means it's likely never had a chance to happen), there's no particular harm that's going to happen because of it.
Nnnno, you can hold that position independent of your feelings towards death. I am curious why you think it's unnecessary to do that, though. It's (relatively) common to use human remains for destructive testing in all manner of experiments. Is the problem that they're filming it instead of publishing the skull fracture patterns of knapped stone clubs in the journal of archeology? This really isn't any worse than, say, seeing how long it takes for human remains to fully liquefy when sealed in plastic and subjected to various conditions (more importantly, the rate at which organs decay while submerged in that soup). Is it worse than melting regions of a body with acid to test a theoretical new skin-grafting technique? Flaying their skin and muscles from the bone then macerating it to a homogeneous mixture to test for microplastic distribution rates in the 35-40 Indonesian Female demographic? Anything that happens to remains on a body farm? Those are all real examples. Thinking what they did is somehow worse than what bodies normally go through, that's the romantic view of death I was referring to.
I think you have an incredibly romantic view of human death, and I don't particularly want to disabuse you of that. So in that spirit, I will spare you the full gory details of what happens to donated human remains / medical cadavers.
Full Disclosure: In my personal collection I own a number of human bones (most but decidedly not all) given to me by the friend who's bones they were. I use the fingers as a fidget toy sometimes. Also, the persecution of cannibalism is one of the great crimes of the western world. I include these to amuse characterize myself and, hopefully by extension, my explanations below.
To answer your questions:
And two brief points:
Alright, hopefully that was less tiring to read than it was to write.
I would be psyched as hell for my remains to be used on one of the most influential educational science shows of the era (plus like, that is a metal AF use for my skull). IDK, I know I'm not one of those people that venerates remains but even if I was, this seems like a grander memorial and contribution to science than having your remains parted out to then sit for years in a box in a closet, waiting for the physical anthro undergrads to do the "reassemble the original hands from this mixed up pile of phalanges" exercise for the umpteenth time.
People post this kind of stuff in the reviews for every kinky item on Amazon, I've never understood the compulsion to share your fic in that medium but I guess some folks gotta write when the inspiration hits 'em...
This very much depends on the subject, I suspect. For math or computer science, wikipedia is an excellent source, and the credentials of the editors maintaining those areas are formidable (to say the least). Their explanations of the underlaying mechanisms are in my experience a little variable in quality, but I haven't found one that's even close to outright wrong.
"The administration" is (usually!) used to refer to the monolithic entity that continues without interruption (office of the prez, congress etc), "this administration" is used to refer to the specific current government/clarify in cases of ambiguity. Weird quirks of american english, what fun...
(Not disagreeing to be clear. Although this is a bit more transparently "dancing to the tune of the puppet master" than most of the US's other forays into the mid. east, I must say.)
[...] It was then, in February, that Mr. Damsky opened an account on X and began posting racist and antisemitic messages. After he wrote in late March that Jews must be “abolished by any means necessary,” the university suspended him, barred him from campus and stepped up police patrols around the law school. He is now challenging the punishment, which could result in his expulsion.
Yeah, he sounds great. At least they clued in eventually...
This has reminded me of the Mormon kids at my highschool who'd talk about how "fucked up" and "high" they'd gotten from drinking eight cans of caffeinated soda at once. Adorably edgy, they were.
Yeah, I'm just gonna leave this criticism from twitter of the source linked in the OP article, since apparently now twitter posts are credible sources in of themselves...?
Those are phrases that get repeated verbatim as responses, which is the hypothetical reason they might be included on this (maaaaybe fake?) list. I'm actually slightly tired of them too, I have a couple students that really overuse them as responses to everything.
...Though I'd never be dumb enough to tell them that.
You can't see the applicability in investigating the creation of surface indications of handheld objects on skin being subjected to various degrees of force, or demonstrating a method of investigating that question to the general television viewing public? Not even being slightly sarcastic or insincere here, I'm very curious what qualities qualify something as being 'science' to you. Not being in a lab excludes archaeology, and not publishing your findings to Nature excludes
methe unfathomably vast majority of scientists from counting as 'scientists'.