27 episodes

The Funeral Science Podcast is a podcast about funeral science.

The Funeral Science Podcast Ben Schmidt

    • Science

The Funeral Science Podcast is a podcast about funeral science.

    Cold Temperatures

    Cold Temperatures

    In this episode, a funeral scientist discusses the effects of cold temperatures on tissue after death and answers listener Nora’s question about the Canary Girls of World War 1.  

    Wales Museum History of the Canary Girls  

    Episode on Otzi  

    Episode on Lenin  

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    • 12 min
    October Case Reports- Zombies and E.T.

    October Case Reports- Zombies and E.T.

    In this episode, a funeral scientist looks at embalming zombies and E.T. the Extra Terrestrial.




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    • 9 min
    "Slow and Low"

    "Slow and Low"

    In this episode, a funeral scientist discusses the physics of embalming and a doctor who is rehydrating dead bodies in Mexico.

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    BBC article about Dr. Cardenas

    New York Times Article about Dr. Cardenas

    • 12 min
    Incorruptible?

    Incorruptible?

    A funeral scientists discusses Sister Wilhelmina, bodies in resin, and the Indiana Funeral Education Foundation.

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    Who was Sister Wilhelmina?

    A miracle in Missouri?

    What is incorruptibility?

    Gower climate and weather

    Water absorption and wood


    Fungal succession during mammalian cadaver decomposition and potential forensic implications

    Snopes article about the resin photos

    Indiana Funeral Education Foundation

    • 13 min
    October Case Reports- Frankenstein's Monster and Gremlins

    October Case Reports- Frankenstein's Monster and Gremlins

    A funeral scientist creates some Halloween content for the listeners. 

    • 12 min
    Creutzfeldt-Jakob's Disease

    Creutzfeldt-Jakob's Disease

    In this episode a funeral scientist discusses Creutzfeld-Jacob's Disease, clots embalmers claim are from the Covid-19 vaccine, and Funeral Face-Off Trivia 

    Funeral Face-Off Trivia Sign-Up 

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    Interview with Meghan Lewis: Autopsy Coordinator, Natl Prion Disease & Pathology Surveillance Center

    Dodge SDS for BRIOHOCL

    https://shop.dodgeco.com/content/files/SDS/BrioHOCLPrPMSDSV2.pdf

    Press release for BRIOHOCL

    https://azfcca.org/biotech-inc-announces-distribution-agreement-dodge-tackle-deadly-prions/

    Johns Hopkins on prion diseases

    https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/prion-diseases

    Harvard on protein folding

    https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2010/issue65/

    WHO guidelines for funeral professionals

    https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/66707/WHO_CDS_CSR_APH_2000.3.pdf

    CDC Guidelines for funeral professionals

    https://www.cdc.gov/prions/cjd/funeral-directors.html#:~:text=CJD%20patients%20who%20have

    Fact check on clots found by embalmers 

    https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2022/theres-no-scientific-evidence-that-vaccines-are-responsible-for-strange-blood-clots-observed-by-embalmers/

    https://healthfeedback.org/claimreview/mike-adams-flawed-analysis-clot-embalmer-richard-hirschman-doesnt-demonstrate-link-between-blood-clots-and-covid-19-vaccines-epoch-times/

    Mayo Clinic and clots 

    https://www.mayoclinic.org/symptoms/blood-clots/basics/causes/sym-20050850

    • 17 min

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