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Center for Body Donations in Paris

dimanche 12 juillet 2020 à 02:00

The Center for Body Donations in Paris neglected many donated corpses and allowed them to be eaten by rats.

Why do people make such a fuss about what will happen to their dead bodies? If those corpses would have been useful to science, it was a sad loss to science that they were instead wasted on feeding rats. A wasteful failure, but not a heinous crime. It can't have any effect on the people whose bodies they formerly were. Those people are dead.

Someday one of those bodies might be mine, since I have offered my future dead body to research. (That is the most useful thing I can think of to do with it.) My opinion about wasting those donations is the same regardless of whether the body in question is mine or another's.

Biggest radio and TV broadcaster in the Philippines

dimanche 12 juillet 2020 à 02:00

The Philippines have closed the biggest radio and TV broadcaster in the country as punishment for not running Do-dirty's campaign ads.

Starr County Officials were licking Covid-19

dimanche 12 juillet 2020 à 02:00

Starr County officials were licking Covid-19 until the governor of Texas imposed reopening everywhere in the state.

Wildlife traffickers

dimanche 12 juillet 2020 à 02:00

*Wildlife traffickers target lion, jaguar and leopard body parts as tiger substitutes.*

They should try using cow parts or domestic cat parts. Those animals are not endangered, and their parts can be obtained easily and lawfully.

Closure of businesses to reduce Covid-19 transmission

dimanche 12 juillet 2020 à 02:00

Several US states are closing some sorts of businesses to reduce transmission of Covid-19.

It is foolish to apply anti-transmission measures by baby steps. That will take a long time to make transmission taper off. States should instead take a big step which is surely enough to drive R well under 1.