consent facepalm...

[burntcopper]

oh dear god. Okay, pictures in a case report. No consent. no consent for even the reporting of the case, let alone the images. Eyes are blacked out, but there's a tattoo on one body part.

....And the author says 'oh, the eyes are blacked out, what's a tattoo here or there?'

Excuse me while I shove their face in the concept that tattoos are used to identify dead bodies and are far more likely to stick in someone's mind than someone's face - which can change due to the light/health/etc.

Dear FSM, we need consent for any case-specific images that show flesh, never mind if identifying marks appear or not.

And editorial and pre-accept have been getting really fucking snotty recently when we report errors that they forgot about. Dear previous depts, all of this should be settled before it gets to us. It is not our bloody job to be the guardians at the gate or making sure that articles have tables/figures/chunks of articles. (of course, being the last port of call, we're the ones that get it in the neck if these are published without said items)

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[clanwilliam.livejournal.com]

I'd link to it, but sadly the Telegraph has seen sense and taken down the photo attached to the story about the man jailed for having sex with a horse.

The horse's eyes had a discreet strip across them.

I'm guessing that wouldn't pass your criteria either?

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

if it's a news article, you don't need consent.

If it was a journal article or book, you need consent.

I want a world where we requires consent from the horse. Because horses have far more dignity than humans.

[fahrenheit-f430.livejournal.com]

I'm beyond disgusted by that: There is someone working in med science who has no concept of procedures, or even a slight awareness of case studies where tattoos have been used for identification?

I'm not sure if the lack of consent documentation is common all-garden lazy idiocy or blatant arrogance.

I don't suppose your boss'll give you a tank of piranhas just for dealing with these people?

[clanwilliam.livejournal.com]

Sharks! Sharks with frickin' lasers on their foreheads!

Seriously, the idiocy I've come across in my time. My all-time favourite was the plagarised article submitted by a journalism lecturer. He'd cut and pasted from a different article.

The best bit? The man lectured in ethics on journalism.

[fahrenheit-f430.livejournal.com]

Piranhas are more compact and suited to the demands of modern offices though...

Plagiarism idiocy I can believe. I have to sign a shitload of forms every year because some twerp typed a COMPLETE CHAPTER from The Empty Space and submitted it as an assignment. *headdesk headdesk*

[clanwilliam.livejournal.com]

The Empty Space!!!!

YAY!!!!!

Brook was my fave. Mind you, we all reckoned all of that particular course could be classed as Theatre of Cruelty - esp. since the lecturer was clearly in love with Artaud.

[fahrenheit-f430.livejournal.com]

ANOTHER ONE! WOOO! :-D

Meyerhold here. Consider yourself lucky, I'm recovering from x-billion years of study where the main lecturer was in love with himself. :-S A real, live, honest to goodness "you'll find the topics of discussion covered in my book..." type. The man took 8 different classes, and all of them had at least 2 of his books on the bibliography. *headdesk*

[clanwilliam.livejournal.com]

Thankfully, we only had Stanislavski, Brecht, Grotowski (I have to say the best bit was the intro by Peter Brooke (look, okay, I can't remember if he has an e or not)(, Artaud and Brook. Thankfully, I wasn't stupid, and I bagged Brook for the tutorials.

Mind you, I still quote the bit about getting that woman who didn't know King Lear to read either Goneril or Regan's speech of "how much I love you".

I also complained to our actingish teacher when she did a superb workshop on King Lear. I wound up with "question not the need" and for once wasn't pointing out that I didn't have the vocal ability to act - I grumbled to her that I didn't have the training to handle Shakespearean speech.

She looked *so* happy, and quite rightly so. I think I was the first student in my year who made the connection - that there are two parts to Shakespearean training, after all.

Mind you, I got to see Tennant do Hamlet in Stratford in a preview. I staggered out, saying I'd heard some good Shakespeareans in my time, but I'd never heard anyone actually make love to the language before. (Yeah, he is that good on the speech.)