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Article: Bodies of Evidence
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- Pittsburgh City Paper
- Article date:
- February 27, 2008
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CopyrightCopyright Steel City Media Feb 27-Mar 5, 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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A critical examination of the controversial exhibit
"REAL HUMAN BODIES," boast the billboards all over Pittsburgh, assuring us that the corpses in Bodies ... The Exhibition, at the Carnegie Science Center, were once living beings. Surely that's a large part of the allure for this hit show. So when Premier Exhibitions Inc., the company that created Bodies, got the plastinated cadavers shipped to the U.S. from China, their country of origin, of course they were labeled as corpses, right?
Apparently not. Recently, ABC's 20/20 confronted Premier CEO Arnie Geller with shipping documents that, for federal customs purposes, listed the unclaimed dead bodies as "plastic models for medical teaching," ...