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Can the UN do anything about the bodies coming from China?!
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Bonnie Young laing
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This exhibit is
appalling and inhumane. As a social scientist, I am required to gain informed consent for such innocuous practices as interviewing
"human subjects". Therefore, it is hard for me to contemplate how the bodies of "human subjects" can be displayed without
documented consent. It flies in the face of the ethics of every profession of which I am aware...the rationale for the
continuation of the exhibit is not persuasive.
My family will not support the Carnegie Science Center
as long as it continues to fail to honor basic ethical principles.
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I
was glad to find a way to protest this neo-Nazi exhibition. I hope others do too.
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They
should be required to provide documentation of consent. This is appalling.
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Cassandra Franklin
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Using
bodies of people that have not given consent is absurd and should not be tolerated.
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It
seems that one of the Carnegie Science Center's
arguments for bringing "Bodies ... the Exhibition" to Pittsburgh is that it's a very popular exhibit.
You could
say the same about the circus freak shows that once toured the country.
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I cannot believe that any culture would accept
such a flagrant and disgusting demonstration of disrespect for human life. I am ashamed that this exhibit has made its way
into the USA.
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I'm still in shock that this is in fact real.
Where does it all end? How is this different from taxidermy, but for people? Is there anything sacred left in
the world? I will do everything in my power to oppose this madness.
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Thank
you, Ms. Catz, for your courageous moral stand.
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The
20/20 show on ABC was very disturbing. I got to agree that Elaine Catz was right all along and additionally she had the integrity
to resign over her principles.
It is just totally unacceptable to use bodies for this exhibit when we are not 100% sure
that the people have agreed to it.
It is an embarrassment to Pittsburgh- we should be better than this.
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As
a human being, and as a resident of the Pittsburgh, and as a supporter of the Carnegie Museums, I am ashamed that I and other
people here have been silent on this issue. The exhibit is a disgrace, viewers who are aware of the questions and condone
it are in denial, and the leadership of the museum has been totally irresponsible in failing to understand the human rights
questions and failing to do real diligence in determining the provenance of the exhibit and the "bodies". Shame on the Carnegie.
Much
gratitude to you Ms Catz for your courage and your witness.
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This
is truly appalling. Hypocrisy at the highest level. I am sure the humans in this "exhibit" did not sign up for it.
Are their families being compensated? I don't think so. It is disrespectful and immoral. This is just another example
of the moral decay of our society.
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Winston-Salem, NC
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We
are horrified by this (we found out about it Feb 15). Thank you for your efforts in recognizing and working against
a thing unconscionable in every way, beginning to end! Please let us know if there is something we can do in our area,
or also the New Orleans
/ Mobile area. I have been posting about this on the internet with links to your site. Thank you for your courage
and conviction in leaving Carnegie.
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I
believe the Show to be unethical. Anyone paying the cost of admission becomes responsible for the actions of the Show's
Creators.
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appalling
lack of morality and human sensitivity
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I
find the use of the word "specimen" when referring to human beings says it all.
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As a retired public health professor, I am
outraged at seeing the comments defending this exhibit as a learning experience. An even better learning experience
is to work with people who are homeless, who are living in poverty, and who, as innocent individuals, suffer the consequences
of military actions.
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I have written a personal letter to
JO HAAS questioning her common sense, ethics and sensitivity as well as her persistent attempts to justify the unjustifiable.
Am boycotting the Science Center as long as she is affiliated.
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I am very surprised that there are so many others who feel exactly the same
as I do. Utterly horrified, sickened and appalled. I've lost faith in most of humanity. This society and it seems most of the so called "civilized" world has
reached a new low. There isn't much I can add or say that hasn't already been expressed by other members of this Picket Line.
I hope the spirits of these abused, tortured, and exploited individuals haunt
every person involved who has profited from this abomination. Have these people
ever heard of Karma? It’s obvious they have no conscience or sense of right or wrong. And that goes for all of the patrons
viewing this exhibit also. One should always remember; When you look into the
abyss, It looks back into you.
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Unethical, immoral and pornographic. No science or art here, only bloody
murder for profit.
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This is an important step in ending the silence that becomes complicity. History abounds (as does daily life) with instances
in which people and other creatures are treated as objects of use, mis-use, to be entertained by or titillated by -in the
guise of being educated. One must disengage one's heart in order to view this exhibit- and that is a very dangerous thing
to do. When these plastinated bodies are no longer useful, where will they go? Will they be sent to a landfill or incinerator
like trash, will someone remember they were once human beings, created in the image of G-d, subjective consciousnesses of
the Universe? And what do we become, as users?
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i went to this exhibit almost a
year ago and i still feel horrified. it is shameful.
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What really bothers me is that
the Catholic Church, the Pittsburgh Diocese in this particular instance, is condoning this macabre and grotesque display...They
need to get their act together and actually stand up for something in this world.
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My Chemistry teacher, saw this
and is absolutely amazed by this exhibit. I on the other hand am not, and wish I never would have seen it. At
all. Even being a pre nursing major in college, this is absolutely disgusting. This is showing the public, humans
cut in half, etc. I'd MUCH rather learn about my insides from a PLASTIC model. This is such gore to me.
Who would agree for the world to see their dead body? Disgusting.
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I am glad to see that someone (Ms Catz) has had
the courage to back up their convictions. This isn't education, it voyeurism in its ugliest form.
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This is morally and ethically reprehensible. It
disgusts me to think that anyone would participate in this exhibition.
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As a medical professional, we are charged with
the dignity of our fellow humans while alive, and after death. We must shut down these freakshows as a sign of respect
for humanity.
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This is very wrong and needs to be stopped.
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I feel that the Bodies exhibition is dishonorable.
It is wrong that this is how anyone thought to make a profit. To make a circus of people who had no idea that they'd be made
deceased clowns, plastered and displayed in front of viewers who believed that stronger ethics and morals were behind the
exhibit. I am disappointed to say that I am one of those viewers who have been to a viewing here in Detroit in May 2007. I had no idea that this was actually set up as a form of national new wave entertainment
for a colossal profit. I began realizing something was wrong when I found out there were several simultaneous viewings all
across the country, that had begun to extend dates to continue months beyond the original schedule ending as if to take advantage
of the ever flowing profit. That's when it hit me, "What's really going on here?" I apologize for my attendance, and more
so that I didn't ask the "right" questions prior to attending. This saddens me horribly.
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Exhibitions of this sort are an assault on the
dignity of the human person and the existential meaning of the body... BODIES, specifically, is an assault on basic legal
rights.
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