Science Wars
Undeceptions with John Dickson
The Church Band Dissection Is a Myth
It was actually the church that first legalized dissection. No anatomist was ever prosecuted for dissecting a human cadaver. Grave robbing, on the other hand, was condemned by both secular and religious authorities. And no case abeen found in which the church ever rejected a request for a dispensation to dissect.
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