fmri

A two-character comic. On the left, a woman with gray hair tells another woman: "In 2009, scientists ran a study that used normal fMRI analysis protocols to establish that a fish's brain was reacting to a photo. However, the study was done on a dead fish." The second woman replies, "Wow. I guess the interpretation is obvious: you can't always trust the established methods." A caption beneath the panel reads: "Due to professional chauvinism, it took another century for scientists to discover that Atlantic salmon are the only animals with souls." Votey (aftercomic): a loose sketch of the two women with a third small figure below; a speech bubble says, "Wow. Only 8 years late on that joke" -- a self-aware jab at the comic recycling the famous 2009 dead-salmon fMRI study.