Well excuse me for not specifying the disease vector!
And Kuru is not CJD, it's a specific type of prion disease located only in New Guinea. DUH!
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Navy doctor let kids hold dead Marine's brain
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Well excuse me for not specifying the disease vector!
And Kuru is not CJD, it's a specific type of prion disease located only in New Guinea. DUH!
Featheredkitten
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*sigh* yes, Kuru is not CJD, but you're talking about getting a prion disease from brain tissue, which would more likely present as Kuru, not CJD. Though if you'd like to argue more about which would be more likely from eating a marine's brain.....
EYEL1NER
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Would you really be okay with some kids playing with the brain of your mother or father without your permission?
Yeah, I'm not emotionally attached to inanimate objects
EYEL1NER
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Well okay then.
Most other people have respect for the dead and human remains, so that is why there is a problem.
Well normal people actually care a great deal about how the remains of their loved ones are handled.
It's not like he was playing beach volleyball with the thing.
Normal people also tend to be incredibly irrational
All humans tend to be incredibly irrational.
EYEL1NER
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Why is the assumption that he was educating them?
Houston3000
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I don't think I ever touched a brain... maybe a pig brain in High School Biology but it was a pig fetus so it would of been tiny.
I don't get it.
Yeah, I dunno. There's not enough info to say whether it was completely dumb, just disrespectful, or ok.
Featheredkitten
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yea, i gotta agree.
Well I am of course assuming he was doing it for educational purposes and not to take the family Christmas Photo.
EYEL1NER
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Yep.
As easily as it could have been done to educate his children, it could have easily gone down like this:
Guy brings brains home while in-route to their destination.
Kids: Dad, what's that you have with you?
Dad: Aww, just some dude's brains from work.
Kids: Ewww, gross! Can we see them?
Dad: See them? Fuck, you can hold 'em if you want. Ma, get the camera!
Hey, c'mon man! It's just inanimate, non-functioning organic matter!
What's the alternative? HEY KIDS WANNA SEE SOMETHING COOOOOOOOOOOOL?
I mean, it's possible a doctor could be that incredibly stupid AND his wife would be equally stupid to think that's the case...or they genuinely thought the kids would like and learn from it.
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The Everyman
pretty much
He's stupid enough to take pictures of him and his kids illegally handling remains that he's transporting for an examination so.........not sure why you'd give him the benefit of the doubt.
Featheredkitten
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Wait, are you betting against stupidity?
EYEL1NER
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He also didn't get command approval for his second job or even let them know he was moonlighting.
Seems like a guy who does whatever he wants.
He's a rogue doctor with nothing to lose and a penchant for BRAINS.
I have to agree with this. I don't think it's all that fucked up if it was for educational purposes (letting your kid touch a brain, that is). The way he did it though was pretty damn stupid.
itwasTuesday
He wasn't alone.
Well was he an organ donor?
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