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India To Cut Out Animal Dissection
ananyo writes "Squeamish science students in India might not have to grapple with cutting up rats or frogs for much longer. The University Grants Commission (UGC), the national body in New Delhi that funds and governs Indian universities, announced new rules earlier this month that would phase out almost all animal dissection and replace it with teaching using computer simulations and models."
First off, it's nice to see that after years of walking the fine line you've finally crossed over into overt racism. Kudos on that.
Now more to the point, this ban is in regards to dissecting animals in biology classes. Since doctors will continue to have to dissect a cadaver while in medical school, and I'm assuming you are not actually a rat or a frog, this shouldn't really affect you.
Rat and frog organs are homologous with human organs, that's why it's so easy to remember different animals' anatomies ones you've learned one. (Though there are quirks, like a horse's hooves bein homologous to middle fingernails...)
Of course, anti-evolution fanatics try to keep such convenient shortcuts from being learned because it infringes on their "faith".
Information theory is life. The rest is just the KL divergence.
Why don't you go to a doctor whose English is not shit and does not have a thick accent?
Because the American doctor is lazy
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.