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Old 07-02-2004, 03:42 PM
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art form? that WOULD be demented. but as a science I think it’s amazing and who knows where it will lead. it doesn’t gross me out in the least and I’d be interested to see the exhibition, too. the specimens, so to speak, did donate their bods to science after all. and think of all the benefits we have now because the pioneers of science didn’t put aside what’s gross (and, yes, sometimes even unethical) in favor of discovery and advancement. da vinci used to have to steal his cadavers because the church and his society deemed it unethical to dissect the human body. and as far as we know he was the first person to create an anatomical sketch of the human body and it basically began an new era of medicine as a science. that was over 500 years ago and there is still so much we don’t know about human bodies. just think, if he hadn’t dared to explore maybe we’d all still be covered in leeches every time we caught a cold. :dizzy:

sorry bout the history lesson ...you may all go out for recess now
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