Where do medical school bones come from? I went undercover (not very well) in India to see if I could buy a real-death skeleton. Don't be a bonehead, take advantage of CuriosityStream's lockdown special at https://www.curiositystream.com/medlife and sign up with the code 'medlife' to get a YEAR of CuriosityStream AND Nebula for only $12! - THIS OFFER HAS NOW ENDED, IT'S NOW $20 FOR THE YEAR WHICH IS STILL AMAZING VALUE. ----------------- More Medlife Crisis: http://www.medlifecrisis.co.uk/ https://twitter.com/medcrisis https://www.facebook.com/Medlifecrisis https://www.instagram.com/medcrisis Kolkata in India used to be centre of the worldwide trade in human skeletons and bones. In 1985 India outlawed the export of human specimens, but as I found out on a visit in 2019, the trade continues on a large scale. Here's my Sherlock Bones impersonation. References: The Red Market by Scott Carney https://www.scottcarney.com/the-red-market https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/museums/2019/07/12/specimen-of-the-week-384-ucl-skulls/ https://www.thenational.ae/world/booming-business-in-bones-demand-for-real-human-skeletons-surges-in-india-1.111275 Sanker Sen https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/economy/story/19851130-government-bans-export-of-human-skeletons-802181-2014-01-21 Random scientific study on the truckloads of Indian bones https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128119129000095 Kickstarter video by Scott Carney for a documentary that never happened https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/767033302/the-skeleton-seller-uncovering-indias-bone-busines?ref=nav_search&result=project&term=SCott%20CArney%20 Scandals in other countries Unlawful theft of human tissue in the US and Ukraine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T80B3u0h8c http://www.nbcnews.com/id/13192080/ns/health/t/grotesque-scandal-cheap-horror-movie/#.XrPExxNKhI0 Alder Hey infant organ scandal (Liverpool, UK): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alder_Hey_organs_scandal Chinese organ removal: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/17/china-is-harvesting-organs-from-detainees-uk-tribunal-concludes https://nypost.com/2019/06/23/the-ugly-truth-about-chinas-organ-harvesting/