Plastic corpses don’t make you smarter

This year Union Station’s Bodies Revealed exhibit was the focal point of a controversy involving bloggers, religious officials, reporters and any shrill voice that could find its way to an online comments section. Now, four months too late for most of Kansas City to pay attention, a reasoned symposium on plastinated corpses — with respected experts from impressive schools — came together at the downtown library on Friday.

After so many months of arguments, the changing official story about

whether the Bodies Revealed cadavers had — when they were still alive

— given informed consent to be turned into exhibits and official

statements from the Catholic Church, what was left un-probed?