a screaming pinwheel of tears and urine

in which researchers push their family members out of a plane

This one makes the rounds a fair bit, but I couldn’t resist; for one thing, not everyone may be familiar with this particular horrifying, barely-averted shitshow. Primarily, though, people tend to think it was a joke — and certainly the satirical paper that inspired it was a joke, this attempt was funded by the Beth Israel Medical Center at Harvard and …