I’m not catholic, but I’m pretty sure they would object to extracting the popes pelvis.
Comment on Pope Joan
Tattorack@lemmy.world 4 days agoYeah… Like there’d be a bit more credence if the guy was going after the pelvis but… You’d have to either xray or extract the pelvis for that.
blackstampede@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
If you’re young enough though then they may let you touch it.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Aw man, really? Damn… Now I gotta find something else to do this evening…
absentbird@lemm.ee 4 days ago
Even then there’s so much overlap in human dimorphism that it’s not an exact science, there’s still like a 5-10% error rate in sexing perfectly preserved pelvic bones. Accurate enough for anthropology, but that’s a big error rate to apply to individuals.
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
that’s my favorite fact for the “YoUr SkEleToN iS mAle!!1!” crowd. Also I’d be dead then, I won’t a shit if some teenagers put my skull in a bowling ball, much less being actually used for archeological research that benefits humanity lol