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Tracking back link after link one ends up here: http://life.globaltimes.cn/life/2011-06/661408.html http://life.globaltimes.cn/life/2011-06/661408.html I hones

Tracking back link after link one ends up here: http://life.globaltimes.cn/life/2011-06/661408.html http://life.globaltimes.cn/life/2011-06/661408.html I honestly think this is bullshit. A kidney is completely useless for transplantation unless its compatibility markers match those of the receiver and there is no use in fishing kidneys randomly among Chinese apple fans.

jhamburger 15y ago
Unless there is already an extensive network in place for organ trafficking, with complicity from hospitals.
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- kenjackson 15y ago
  Don't they use off-duty doctors or assistants (or even someone who just learned it from someone else) and just use available space, e.g., strip mall offices? If you're buying trafficked organs, you'll often find other ways to get them transplanted.
fredoliveira 15y ago
Did you just base your rebuttal on the idea that there's no way someone could, say, buy a kidney and find the right buyer post-factum? It's not like there's no market for kidneys, sadly.
rauljara 15y ago
Here is a nine page investigative piece by the New York Times on the organ trade (the opening anecdote is about a kidney). http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/23/world/organ-trade-global-black-market-tracking-sale-kidney-path-poverty-hope.html http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/23/world/organ-trade-global-b... It's a little dated (2004), but this certainly isn't the first time I've heard a mainstream news source report on organ trafficking. Do you believe the whole organ trafficking thing is fake, or just this story?
- crocowhile 15y ago
  Let's say that I don't believe all I read about the organ trafficking but I may be very wrong in my believes.
rogerbraun 15y ago
The story on the page you link to does not even add up. The title says that he sold his kidney for an iPad2, but later it says "he returned home with a laptop and an iPhone". So what did he buy?

jhamburger 15y ago

Unless there is already an extensive network in place for organ trafficking, with complicity from hospitals.

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kenjackson 15y ago
Don't they use off-duty doctors or assistants (or even someone who just learned it from someone else) and just use available space, e.g., strip mall offices? If you're buying trafficked organs, you'll often find other ways to get them transplanted.

fredoliveira 15y ago

Did you just base your rebuttal on the idea that there's no way someone could, say, buy a kidney and find the right buyer post-factum? It's not like there's no market for kidneys, sadly.

rauljara 15y ago

Here is a nine page investigative piece by the New York Times on the organ trade (the opening anecdote is about a kidney). http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/23/world/organ-trade-global-black-market-tracking-sale-kidney-path-poverty-hope.html http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/23/world/organ-trade-global-b... It's a little dated (2004), but this certainly isn't the first time I've heard a mainstream news source report on organ trafficking. Do you believe the whole organ trafficking thing is fake, or just this story?

crocowhile 15y ago
Let's say that I don't believe all I read about the organ trafficking but I may be very wrong in my believes.

rogerbraun 15y ago

The story on the page you link to does not even add up. The title says that he sold his kidney for an iPad2, but later it says "he returned home with a laptop and an iPhone". So what did he buy?