we should really talk about JonsBones

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  @cardinal_Arche · 5 years ago

  Honestly, at this point, it's irrelevant whether there is a real, or purely semantic distinction between 'responsibly sourced' and 'ethically sourced'. The fact that they accept human skeletal remains from absolutely anyone, through their website, with effectively no system for vetting the seller and source of the remains, makes a mockery of even their 'responsibly sourced' claim.

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• SH

  @SheKnives · 5 years ago

  &quot;We want to de-stigmatize the bone trade and bone industry.&quot; So you can make more money right Jon?<br><br>I&apos;m all for death positivity or even just plain morbid curiosity. But this ain&apos;t it chief.

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• CO

  @CourtneyRC · 5 years ago

  they definitely have the bones of someone&apos;s murder victim..... that whole &quot;documentation isn&apos;t needed for you to sell us someone&apos;s bones&quot; thing was creepy as hell

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• EM

  @EmsSimsVideos · 5 years ago

  The way he carefully selects his language is so eerie to me. The &quot;responsibly sourced&quot; because he knows they aren&apos;t ethical. Calling human remains &quot;human osteology&quot;, which is an odd way to use the term anyway, almost to distance them from being human beings and dehumanize them. <br>And not even to go into the repeated videos of his disrespectful handling of the remains, packing merch IN remains, letting his pets play with the bones, all while saying he handles them with the &quot;greatest care and respect&quot;. <br><br>As a forensic anthropologist, I really appreciate you treating this with such seriousness. This isn&apos;t just an internet outrage that will fade with time. This is something that we are really working toward finding a way to stop. &nbsp;<br><br>For people who have been asking &quot;well then what to you do with remains that don&apos;t have paperwork and museums won&apos;t take&quot;, contact human rights organizations (BABAO for example, often knows of resources), contact actual medical or educational institutions, or law enforcement - there is no need for profit-making graphic designer middlemen. A lab I used to work in would occasionally get old medical prepped remains and send them for DNA sampling to see if we could locate any potential living family. It cuts out anyone making a profit off these people&apos;s lives and can bring them and their families closure.

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• NU

  @Nublet864 · 5 years ago (edited)

  Obscure life tip: if you have something that a museum didn&apos;t want because it was too unethical to have, you probably shouldn&apos;t have it either.

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• CE

  @cedarmay4245 · 5 years ago

  It makes the fact that he owns baby skulls much worse when he’s admitted that most of his collection came from unconsenually donated skeletons

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• PA

  @pastel7645 · 5 years ago

  there are people who do ethical taxidermy that can provide more information about the animals they work with than this guy can about LITERAL HUMAN BEINGS

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• BO

  @Boggythefroggy · 5 years ago

  I hope Caitlin from Ask a Mortician talks about this soon cos I’m really interested in her POV as a mortician etc. Also the TikToks just roasting him done by actual osteologists and archaeologists is just <b>chefs kiss</b>

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• PA

  @palakv29 · 5 years ago

  The fact that so many of those bones are of people who were continuously exploited in my country during their lives and even in death, they still continue to be exploited is very disturbing. Untouchable people are still a VERY harmed community and the fact that their bones have been shipped off to somewhere just to be showcased like that is just…

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• NI

  @NicoleCinnaroll · 5 years ago

  I think it’s good to remember that in archeology, archeologists spend a LONG time trying to put together remains and give them their name and story back. Where as this is just plain creepy and morally disgusting.

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• ED

  @edenlippmann3745 · 5 years ago (edited)

  They say “not your bones specifically” but why not? Surely the most responsible way to procure these bones would be directly through people’s wills.

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• AN

  @anaveragemedicoreguy1644 · 5 years ago

  He has so many backbones yet not a single moral backbone.

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