It's a odd one this.

Despite not being a Paganist, I have a gut feeling that bones shouldn't be gawked at by museum visitors, but the research thing, well, I'm not so sure how I feel about that.

Part of me thinks of those disarticulated bones in WKLB and how they were possibly shunted about back then, in some kind of ritualistic manner. The stuff scientists do isn't totally different. It's still really just faffing about with bones to do magic. Science involves lots of ritual too. You could look at it as another way of honouring the bones of the ancestors.