My Heroes Are The Onion Writers

Riffing on the seemingly growing trend of former professional athletes providing their brains to the Center for Traumatic Encephalopathy (see here, for example), writers for The Onion report, "Neurologists Implore Professional Athletes to Wait Until They Are Dead to Send in Brains for Research."

The God-bless-em scribblers even went so far as to fact-check the president of the American Academy of Neurology.*

* Although I suspect they used an actor in their accompanying photo to convey a presumptive neurologist's on-the-mark expression of worry, confusion, and mild exasperation.