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The history of Gray's famous text may reveal the anatomy of a jerk. (credit: Public Domain)

Gray’s Anatomy is easily recognized worldwide as one of the most revered and influential medical texts of all time. But a closer examination of its medical history turns up tales of a disgraceful birth and hints that its author, Henry Gray, may have been a bit of a fraudster.

Henry Gray, author of Gray's Anatomy. (credit: H. Pollock)

Notes, publications, and diary entries from Gray’s colleagues suggest that the famous author may have plagiarized numerous passages of the text and was pushy, cut-throat, and resented, a new commentary piece in the journal Clinical Anatomy argues. While the allegations are not new, one researcher claims to have fresh data that refutes them, urging a renewed dissection of Gray’s character and actions.

The commentary’s author, Ruth Richardson, a medical historian and visiting scholar at King’s College London, wrote about Gray’s alleged cheating ways in her 2008 book, The Making of Mr. Gray’s Anatomy. But in a 2014 scientific conference, anatomy professor Brion Benninger, of the College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific – Northwest, publicly announced that he and a colleague had carried out a computer analysis of the text and found no such evidence of plagiarism. He said that he intended to publish the analysis. But, in the year since, he has not produced any data.

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A Utah legislator has recently introduced a proposed state law that would allow law enforcement to shoot down drones in certain situations, among other suggested limits to drone activity.

If passed, Senate Bill 210 would firmly establish many limits on the behavior of drones that currently don’t exist at either the federal or state level. As currently written, Sen. Wayne Harper’s bill seems squarely aimed at many drone-related incidents that have occurred across the country.

Specifically, Harper’s bill would establish the concept of aerial trespass—which does not exist elsewhere in the United States. It's likely an attempt to avoid future situations of landowners shooting drones down out of the sky. The bill also would ban the use of drones within 500 feet of correctional institutions, forbid flights within three miles of a "wildland fire," and halt surveillance of gatherings of 500 people or more, and aerial voyeurism.