• @[email protected]
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    132 months ago

    Wtf is this crap from? We have too many bodies donated for science. So much that we can’t use them all a few years back.

    Good for med students though. Never short on corpses to practice on! Fr. Some students got kicked from uni for desecrating a corpse. They took out the intestines, made a lassoo from it and tried to swing it around.

  • @[email protected]
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    32 months ago

    The problem is that corpses are big business. As horrible as that is.

    You’re as likely to end up being a crash test dummy for some MIC bomb R&D as you are to be used by a medical student when you “give your body to science”

  • @[email protected]
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    62 months ago

    Pretty sure there’s a million scifis about humanoids that feel human pain. That hommonculous is old enough to scream if it had a mouth.

  • Lovable Sidekick
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    Lack of available test tissue might be slowing down drug approvals, but the main reason we don’t see cures is that drug companies don’t want to sell cures, they want to sell chronic treatments. If you cure a person you have a customer on Tuesday. Treat their condition and you have a customer for life. Drug companies aren’t motivated to produce cures any more than Nike is motivated to sell each person exactly one pair of shoes. This is a very good reason why public health should be publicly funded and publicly distributed. When medicine is an expense instead of a profit center, we’ll start curing diseases instead of maintaining them.

  • @[email protected]
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    142 months ago

    Image a greenhouse where they grow human feet, whole legs, loose eyes and a bunch of hearts next to another greenhouse where they grow arms that wave as you walk past, their fingernails perfectly groomed. You see a bunch of scalps with a youthful head of hair next to some carefully protected brains. Perfect teeth growing row after row. And as you look around you realise how happy people will be with the spare body parts you’re growing, and feel a deep form of gratitude your father got you in this new industry because thanks to him you are a rich man with a big house and a big car and a perfect wife.

      • @[email protected]
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        62 months ago

        It starred Scarlett Johansson and Ewan McGregor. We could watch them watch paint dry for two hours and it would still be pleasant on the eyes.

    • d00phy
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      62 months ago

      I think Kiera Knightley and Andrew Garfield did one with a similar, if less action packed, one.