- Exploritorium
The Exploritorium is truly a great online science museum, and quite obviously, a great deal of work has gone into its construction by its Webmaster, and others involved with the project.
We take issue, however with the fact that in this day and age, with all the modern alternatives that exist to dissection, and which are being recognized and adopted by medical schools that the Exploritorium has produced a section to "enhance" the experience of the actual dissection of a real cow's eye.
Aside from the moral issues, which abound, mainly because students have little choice regarding participation in such dissections, even when they are morally opposed to the idea, there are other issues which are becoming increasing valid for banning the dissection of actual body part in our school classrooms, not the least of which is the HEALTH issue. As a society, we have proven that we have neither the funds nor even the inclination to properly keep watch on large number of the diseased animals that are being sold for consumption, let alone supervise the the animals that are being sold for dissection.
We think the Exploritorium is a great site! We very much applaud its creators. We only hope that eventually they will replace the "cow dissection" page with some of the newer
computer modeling programs, which certainly do an adequate job at teaching anatomy.
Reverence for the wonders of biology do not reside in having our children cut up dead animals. And additionally, it is not safe for them to do so.
Go to the Exploritorium! Visit this wonderful site. And while you are there, let Ron Hipschman, the talented and hard working Webmaster know that you appreciate his work, but feel the cow's eye dissection should be replaced with something a little more in step with the times.
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