(02-25-2026, 07:54 AM)LightAngel Wrote: First time, comprehensively characterised the anomalous intravascular casts (AICs), commonly reported by embalmers worldwide as strange, rubbery white clots.
Research, significantly funded by New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science (NZDSOS), provides definitive analysis that these structures are a previously unrecognised and abnormal form of intravascular clotting.
That's some seriously bad ...stuff... masquerading as science. Yes, I looked at the original paper AND their (very small) sources.
Okay... hear me out:
* only five sources, one of which is a textbook.
* the "worldwide embalmer research" paper isn't a paper; it's just a self-reported survey. The pool wasn't global -- it's just "some embalmers in the US, UK, Canada, and Australia." "English speaking countries" does NOT equal "worldwide" by any measure.
* they don't identify who the respondents are... morticians? Assistants? onlookers?
* embalmers aren't pathologists, nor are they medically trained or research trained. Here's the actual courses for one degree:
https://commonwealth.edu//associate-of-a...l-service/ (and here's the FBI's paper on pathologists, which doesn't include 'funeral home employee' as a source of information:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9616451/)
* they don't have microscopes/labs in funeral homes to do pathological examinations. (here's how they do embalming:
https://www.meri.org/resource/news/embalming-process/) So... they're supposedly identifying this from "looking at the blood residue that was pushed out after the embalming fluid goes in"
* the funeral home may not get the body immediately after death
* the "data" for the analysis did not include age at death, cause of death, date of death. Blood flows and clots differently with different conditions (and can be affected by whatever drugs may have been given to try to save the patient)
And finally -- here's a video from a Youtuber who is an mortician, who gently (with a dummy called "Rescue Randy") walks you through how the funeral home process goes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmVf0EInfwg
Notice that at no time is there a stage where you could/would stop and look at unadulterated body fluids. As the embalming fluid is pushed in, it mixes with the dried/drying blood and is then sucked out through a tube into a container... which fills with blood+embalming gunk.
What's being presented ("I see fibrous clots!") is not possible. It *would* be possible as a result if we were talking forensic pathologists.
But not funeral homes.
DISCLAIMER: I've done human research investigations, so I know what hoops one has to jump through. As part of this, I've had multiple papers where my original premises had to be modified because of bad questions on a questionnaire and to tighten my research.
