American Universities Are Quietly Sending Donated Bodies Into Military Training Programs

Manufacture Dissent · May 12, 2026 · 14m

A U.S. university taking bodies that people donated for science and handing them over to the military is already a serious breach of trust. But what USC and UC San Diego have been doing goes further. They’ve been supplying cadavers to the U.S. Navy, and some of those bodies ended up in trauma‑surgery training for Israeli military teams in Los Angeles. None of this was disclosed to donors or their families.

USC has taken more than $860,000 from the Navy over the past seven years in exchange for at least 89 cadavers. Thirty‑two of those were used specifically for Israeli military training at…