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It’s no surprise this comes from China, the same country that grinds dead babies into pills.

by Svexav 8y ago

cyphar 8y ago
When I first read this comment I thought it was hyperbole (I've heard about the vaccine and melamine scares -- which harmed and killed many thousands of children -- but not about dead babies being put into pills). But no, it's real fucking thing[1,2,3,4]. What the actual fuck. How is a Hacker News comment the first time I've heard of this? [1]: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/05/horrifyingly-ground-baby-pills-are-real-thing/328490/ https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/05/ho... [2]: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-17980177 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-17980177 [3]: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-05-08/south-korea-cracks-down-on-baby-flesh-pills/3999028 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-05-08/south-korea-cracks-do... [4]: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/southkorea/9250438/Pills-filled-with-powdered-human-baby-flesh-found-by-customs-officials.html https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/southkorea/9...
- markdown 8y ago
  I don't understand this. They don't advertise the pills as human flesh pills, so why use that material in the first place? Why not dead chickens, or runoff from an abattoir?
- withhighprod 8y ago
  It’s quite ancient and almost related to cult groups. Well, in some country it’s also part of its religion See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuman_Thong https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuman_Thong. Should I tell you it’s very popular among celebrities?
- aaron695 8y ago
  Basically it's hyperbole, here's an ok summary - https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/9272/did-pills-from-china-seized-in-south-korea-contain-the-powdered-flesh-of-dead-ba https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/9272/did-pills-... What hell it has to do with "First gene-edited babies claimed in China" other than racism is hard to see anyway. In the west it's not unheard of to eat to placenta which is basically the same thing anyway. If it's real it's impossible to know, we only have one source, some doco in Korean which means it must be pretty rare even if it's true, for a country of over a billion that's rare. PS And it was the Koreans in this tale buying them.

It’s no surprise this comes from China, the same country that grinds dead babies into pills.

by Svexav 8y ago

It’s no surprise this comes from China, the same country that grinds dead babies into pills.

When I first read this comment I thought it was hyperbole (I've heard about the vaccine and melamine scares -- which harmed and killed many thousands of children -- but not about dead babies being put into pills). But no, it's real fucking thing[1,2,3,4]. What the actual fuck. How is a Hacker News comment the first time I've heard of this? [1]: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/05/horrifyingly-ground-baby-pills-are-real-thing/328490/ https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/05/ho... [2]: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-17980177 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-17980177 [3]: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-05-08/south-korea-cracks-down-on-baby-flesh-pills/3999028 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-05-08/south-korea-cracks-do... [4]: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/southkorea/9250438/Pills-filled-with-powdered-human-baby-flesh-found-by-customs-officials.html https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/southkorea/9...

markdown 8y ago
I don't understand this. They don't advertise the pills as human flesh pills, so why use that material in the first place? Why not dead chickens, or runoff from an abattoir?
withhighprod 8y ago
It’s quite ancient and almost related to cult groups. Well, in some country it’s also part of its religion See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuman_Thong https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuman_Thong. Should I tell you it’s very popular among celebrities?
aaron695 8y ago
Basically it's hyperbole, here's an ok summary - https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/9272/did-pills-from-china-seized-in-south-korea-contain-the-powdered-flesh-of-dead-ba https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/9272/did-pills-... What hell it has to do with "First gene-edited babies claimed in China" other than racism is hard to see anyway. In the west it's not unheard of to eat to placenta which is basically the same thing anyway. If it's real it's impossible to know, we only have one source, some doco in Korean which means it must be pretty rare even if it's true, for a country of over a billion that's rare. PS And it was the Koreans in this tale buying them.