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Two decades ago, Sister Treanor and 677 other members of the School Sisters of Notre Dame granted a young researcher’s request to test them each year. The mission: Tracking the progression of Alzheimer’s disease and other age-related brain disorders.
The 61 surviving nuns recently completed their last round of intellectual and physical tests for the Nun Study, one of the world’s most comprehensive neurological research projects.
One final sacrifice remains: When they die, their brains will be taken for further study, joining a collection of hundreds of other brains donated by the the nuns who died before them.
Folks who believe in doing good works – are especially worthwhile human beings when they offer the leftover bits and pieces to do some good, as well.
Thanks, KB
It is amazing the church didn’t kick them out for signing up to do this.
#2, BS. Their have always been places of learning, it’s just the church gained control of many of them early on in Europe, but it’s not like they invented it. They just needed to stop people from going to Muslim lands and learning there. They had a bad habit of coming back with open minds.
What the hell is in the water of that nunnery? 677 members with alzheimer? Maybe the witch hunters at the RNC should get some water from that place and give it to Hillary.
Mmmm.Braainzzzz!
Sounds like the nuns used their brains to give their brains so others might save their brains. They must have been brainiacs.
Actually #3, you are wrong. I hate to say this, not being religious, but the ‘church’ has supported a lot of scientific work over the ages. From Roger Bacon (1214–1294) to Galileo Galilei (1564 – 1642) to the current Vatican support for various disciplines.
During the Islamic Golden Age (from the 8th to the 13th centuries) the Islamic states funded huge amounts of scholarly work in the pursuit of better understanding of the world. Their efforts encompassed the arts, agriculture, economics, industry, literature, navigation, philosophy, sciences, and technology.
I’m not saying it’s a match made in heaven (boom boom) but to deny that religion doesn’t support science is both misguided and inaccurate.
I have always felt the nuns have done the real work of the church while priests bishops and cardinals are there for show.