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There’s an unsettling lack of skepticism from the commenters here. If you do the most surface level digging on this, you will find that the author of the study
by VerminOctopus1 5y ago
There’s an unsettling lack of skepticism from the commenters here. If you do the most surface level digging on this, you will find that the author of the study is a shill for anti-China propaganda, usually with a guise of anti-communism. Writing like this is all produced through Washington thinktanks and then pushed to media outlets en masse. Given the source of money and political bent of this material, it’s hard for me to earnestly believe it.
- adhesive_wombat 5y agoAlso remember that billions of dollars have been explicitly assigned by US legislation in the last couple of years for what is, basically, propaganda: the 2021 Strategic Competition Act gives $300 million per year for 4 years, the COMPETES act gives another $500 million. I don't know if you can say where it goes exactly, but just bear in mind that there is at a billion dollars' worth of anti-China stuff sloshing about somewhere in "the media" that was funded directly, and purposefully, from Congress, and who knows how much from less direct sources.
- schleyreuth 5y agoStudy[1] has two authors, second of which is well-qualified[2] to discuss procedures and ethics regarding organ donation. Funding information is listed right after the publication date. It's not hidden information that requires any digging. If this is sloppy anti-China propaganda as asserted, it should be easy to dismiss. Does it make sense that everyone involved in the review process of the American Journal of Transplantation all share the same political beliefs? [1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ajt.16969 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ajt.16969 [2] https://www.eacts.org/faculty/jacob-lavee/ https://www.eacts.org/faculty/jacob-lavee/