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Louisa Harken's avatar

Really hit my funny bone this one..

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Stephanie's avatar

Thank you Lou!!

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Graham Lovelace's avatar

I remember around 1974/75 my secondary school bought a new skeleton for the biology lab. The old one had dark brown bones and missing bits (how, why … no idea). The new one had freshly bleached white bones, and was fully intact. Inevitably the questions came: where did the school buy it from? Who had it been? Our teacher was understandably cagey but said enough to suggest there was a thriving international skeleton market and that the Vietnam war had probably contributed to it. From that point on the skeleton became a person. And I’ve been opposed to the deeply unethical use of actual skeletons in education ever since.

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Stephanie's avatar

WOW. THAT is a very good story. Interesting that the students picked up the fuzzy ethics, but the teachers did not.

I remember that my old highschool also had a human skull for some reason. Who knows why, it was never used as an educational aid. Then one day a teacher got bored and wired it into the mouth of a crocodile for a laugh.

Eventually a different teacher decided this was in very poor taste and disentangled the two.

This happened in the early 2000s.

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Lucie's avatar

I wish to know where one can purchase a David Bowie rat pls.

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Stephanie's avatar

Careful, I’ll get you one and make you feel bad if you throw it out.

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Lucie's avatar

If that’s the case could I request a David Bowie Mouse instead? I fear my fancy rodent taxidermy display case is almost at capacity and this might allow them to smoosh in.

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