Dead People Scientists Won't Let Rest

An anonymous reader writes "Some historical figures are just too interesting to leave alone, even when they're supposed to be moldering in the grave. That's why medical researchers dug up Tycho Brahe, bombarded Napoleon's hair with neutrons in a nuclear reactor, and did everything they could think of to King Tut. Discover Magazine has 8 stories of delayed diagnoses and extreme postmortems."

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Re:Well,

[RazzleFrog]

Sometimes research is just done for the sake of research. It doesn't always have to have a productive result.