Robert Sapolsky

Right about this time, says Cebulski, the first med schools started to pop up in America. And a supply and demand issue came into effect. Because with these med schools came med students. Medical students. Who needed to learn about anatomy. And of course, in order to do that, they needed bodies.

Now here's the key point. Since demand was so high, the resurrectionists had to go where the bodies were easiest to get. Which meant, you know, avoiding the fancy graveyards.

Now here's the key point. Since demand was so high, the resurrectionists had to go where the bodies were easiest to get. Which meant, you know, avoiding the fancy graveyards.

Now here's the key point. Since demand was so high, the resurrectionists had to go where the bodies were easiest to get. Which meant, you know, avoiding the fancy graveyards.

But if you were not wealthy, no fancy coffin for you. You'd probably just be buried in a sack in some pauper's field just a few inches under the soil. Very accessible for these resurrectionists.

But if you were not wealthy, no fancy coffin for you. You'd probably just be buried in a sack in some pauper's field just a few inches under the soil. Very accessible for these resurrectionists.

But if you were not wealthy, no fancy coffin for you. You'd probably just be buried in a sack in some pauper's field just a few inches under the soil. Very accessible for these resurrectionists.

Are you explaining why children die? Yes, yes, yes. Bear with me. All right. What I'm trying to make is that the grave robbers targeted the poor. So much so that sometimes when people would catch these resurrectionists in the act and see, like, oh, my God, that's my dad you're digging up, there'd be riots.

Are you explaining why children die? Yes, yes, yes. Bear with me. All right. What I'm trying to make is that the grave robbers targeted the poor. So much so that sometimes when people would catch these resurrectionists in the act and see, like, oh, my God, that's my dad you're digging up, there'd be riots.

Are you explaining why children die? Yes, yes, yes. Bear with me. All right. What I'm trying to make is that the grave robbers targeted the poor. So much so that sometimes when people would catch these resurrectionists in the act and see, like, oh, my God, that's my dad you're digging up, there'd be riots.

All right, let me bring it home. Not that it hasn't been interesting, but bring it home. Okay. As a result of all of this hubbub over grave robbing, country after country throughout Europe decided... Well, let's standardize how science gets its cadavers. Forget all this grave robbing. So they passed laws.

All right, let me bring it home. Not that it hasn't been interesting, but bring it home. Okay. As a result of all of this hubbub over grave robbing, country after country throughout Europe decided... Well, let's standardize how science gets its cadavers. Forget all this grave robbing. So they passed laws.

All right, let me bring it home. Not that it hasn't been interesting, but bring it home. Okay. As a result of all of this hubbub over grave robbing, country after country throughout Europe decided... Well, let's standardize how science gets its cadavers. Forget all this grave robbing. So they passed laws.

This was like the cadaver version of direct deposit. Okay, so grave robbing was gone, but now all the bodies used by medicine, not just some, but nearly all,

This was like the cadaver version of direct deposit. Okay, so grave robbing was gone, but now all the bodies used by medicine, not just some, but nearly all,

This was like the cadaver version of direct deposit. Okay, so grave robbing was gone, but now all the bodies used by medicine, not just some, but nearly all,

And that seemed okay.

And that seemed okay.

And that seemed okay.

actually warps your body. And now, Robert, now we come back to the case of the mysteriously enlarged thymus. Because if you're poor, you're worried about your job. You're worried about feeding your family. You're worried about the bills. In other words, you are stressed out.