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University of Southern California Should Probably Stop Doing Brain Science

posted by cmn32480 on Sunday April 05 2015, @06:27AM   Printer-friendly
from the DOH! dept.

SubiculumHammer writes:

Scientific American (SA) points out that although there are medical illustrators on staff at the University of Southern California it is highly likely that they were not consulted before putting out the cited press release about a $50 million dollar donation. The brain is shown back to front!

Additional images of the brain are available from Google.

Update: 04/05 18:27 GMT by mrcoolbp : User wantkitteh points out that the inaccurate image has been pulled from the USC links (though it's showing in the SA article at the time of this update)

 
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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Sunday April 05 2015, @10:53AM

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Sunday April 05 2015, @10:53AM (#166620) Homepage
    What image? The only image I see is in the press release, http://news.usc.edu/files/2015/03/Feature_Stevens_21-824x549.jpg , and that shows no outline of the human head?
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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by FatPhil on Sunday April 05 2015, @10:55AM

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Sunday April 05 2015, @10:55AM (#166621) Homepage
    After a bit of clicky-clicky, http://ami.org/press/press-releases/2015/342-forward-thinking-hiring-medical-illustrator has this: http://ami.org/images/stories/news/ForwardThinkingBrainImage.jpg
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  • (Score: 2) by sjames on Sunday April 05 2015, @11:01AM

    by sjames (2882) on Sunday April 05 2015, @11:01AM (#166625) Journal

    This [twimg.com]. As shown in the Scientific American link (scroll down).

    • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Sunday April 05 2015, @11:17AM

      by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Sunday April 05 2015, @11:17AM (#166631) Homepage
      SA not showing me the same page that they're showing you: http://fatphil.org/tmp/nobrain.png
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      • (Score: 2) by sjames on Sunday April 05 2015, @05:15PM

        by sjames (2882) on Sunday April 05 2015, @05:15PM (#166698) Journal

        That explains the confusion. Perhaps SA thinks it's still the 1st?!?

    • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday April 05 2015, @01:24PM

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Sunday April 05 2015, @01:24PM (#166650) Journal

      Ahhhhhh - I didn't see that image. Yeah - backward. As suggested above though, it could well be a congress critter.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 05 2015, @11:19PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 05 2015, @11:19PM (#166792)

      LOL