Oklahoma politicians aren’t the only ones who are great at getting roasted, spoofed, and criticized on the national satirical talk show circuit.
Earlier this week, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver took an amusing and lengthy look at the human organ and body collection industry, providing a glimpse of the problems and ethical issues concerning what corporations, governments, and healthcare organizations do with human bodies that are designated for science, research and organ collection.
During the riff, three Oklahoma businesses and organizations got some spotlight and attention.
The first was the Museum of Osteology – the for-profit I-35 bone graveyard museum that houses and displays skeletons of all different species, including human children and flexible acrobats.
Oliver showed a snippet of a CBS news report about the museum that questions whether it’s okay to display human bodies for a profit when they were originally donated for scientific research purposes:
The Museum of Osteology was criticized for displaying human skeletons that were originally donated for scientific research… pic.twitter.com/cM5uZ9wTJE
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