What!
The article continues "The state-of-the-art body maps have been developed for the NHS Choices website. The maps, to be launched next month, allow users to strip away the dummies' skin to explore information about diseases and treatments. The public will be able to vote on the issue via the website."
Sounds quite useful and maybe even interesting for non-medical people.
"Professor Sir Muir Gray, chief knowledge officer for the NHS, is opposed to any censoring of the images.
He said: "I'm all for the genitalia, anything else would just be an overly prudish Victorian approach.
"It's completely bonkers: the edited versions resemble space aliens. People have to accept this is the 21st century."
Sir Muir conceded that some parents might not want their children to see anatomically correct naked images.
But he said the evidence suggested the straightforward approach was more effective with young people. "
Thank you Mr Muir, you are correct but the "Will nobody think of the children" brigade will no doubt stick their oars in. Mind you if I was a 10 year old boy with a sore on the end of my penis, I might be rather confused by the "The censored version of the body map images" shown here ...
Could this story get any more ridiculous? Of course it can "Sir Muir is proposing an optional 'drag and drop' fig leaf for the NHS virtual Adam and Eve, so visitors have the option keeping the body-maps covered up."
As Private Eye would say "You couldn't make it up!"
I notice that the BBC chicken out of showing both the censored and uncensored images, after all children might be using the website.
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