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So over coffee I had my wife look at this picture. As a Neonatologist she said that the skeletal form was in the variance one finds is fetuses of that maturity. The skull shape is what one might find if the brain was lost and did not provide pressure against the forming skull. In her premie population 24 week infants, going froward, can have "protruding" eyes just from the pressure of masks on around the nose and mouth of the infant to facilitate breathing because the skull is still forming (as well as the brain). Getting mummified remains in the Chilean dessicating conditions should not be surprising.
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Even a superstitious man has certain inalienable rights. He has a right to harbor and indulge his imbecilities as long as he pleases. . . He has a right to argue for them as eloquently as he can, in season and out of season. He has a right to teach them to his children. But certainly he has no right to be protected against the free criticism of those who do not hold them. He has no right to demand that they be treated as sacred. He has no right to preach them without challenge." -H.L. Mencken
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