Anthropodermic bibliopegy performed, or collected by medical doctors, who have access to cadavers, sometimes those of executed criminals, such as the case of John Horwood in 1821 and the Red Barn Murder in 1828. Another tradition, with less supporting evidence, is that books of erotica or the occult have been bound in human skin. The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh preserves a notebook bound in the skin of the murderer William Burke after his execution and subsequent public dissection by Professor Alexander Monro in 1829. What Lawrence Thompson called "the most famous of all anthropodermic bindings" is exhibited at the Boston
Doctors for Disaster Preparedness political group" and as a "truly bizarre lobby group". It promotes the [[climate change denialism|denialist]] view that man-made global warming is not real or not an important concern. The group awards the Petr Beckmann Award, named in honor of Petr Beckmann, a libertarian electrical engineer who challenged Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. Doctors for Disaster Preparedness share the same address with AAPS. The Petr Beckmann Award for courage and achievement in defense of scientific truth and freedom' is awarded at the annual meeting of the Doctors for Disaster Preparedness. The award is named for Petr Beckmann, an electrical engineer and