China harvested organs from political prisoners, says tribunal

Re:China harvested organs from political prisoners, says tri... by a-nikolaev on Thursday December 13, 2018 @03:00PM (#18675485)

The word "substantial" is very vague and a bad sign for any scientific and evidence-based publication.

Then, when such news show up while Trump is trying to make his deal with the Chinese and (it seems) even got a hostage recently, this makes me feel a bit suspicious of this article, especially since its content is pay-walled.

(I'm not defending organ-harvesting, which was already reported in the past, but the article must be specific about what has or has not happened, and should not use such vague statements.)

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Re:China harvested organs from political prisoners, says tri... by ArchTypical on Thursday December 13, 2018 @03:13PM (#18675606)

> The word "substantial" is very vague and a bad sign for any scientific and evidence-based publication.

That's true. Have an upvote. There are some troubling stats that can be pulled up in regard to transplant stats:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Go...

Admittedly, it's a little backhanded to complain about the accuracy of statistics that are intentionally withheld by a totalitarian dystopian regime.

Downvoted, but relevant all the same: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18611084

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Re:China harvested organs from political prisoners, says tri... by throwba43yt on Thursday December 13, 2018 @04:25PM (#18676280)

I agree. All this “bad” news about China recently seems odd.

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Re:China harvested organs from political prisoners, says tri... by malmsteen on Thursday December 13, 2018 @03:17PM (#18675645)

Tbh you can see a conpiracy everywhere, even with your comment for example: you could be geniunely suspicious.

Or you could be a die hard trump supporter who prefer to say its suspicious because you don't like that attacking china whill lead in the future to attacking trump policy.

I wonder which one

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Re:China harvested organs from political prisoners, says tri... by a-nikolaev on Thursday December 13, 2018 @03:24PM (#18675718)

Well, if Trump say something about this topic on TV in the next couple of days, then I'm right. In any case, they promise to deliver a full report on that investigation in early 2019, hopefully it will be more informative. (My main point is not that the article might be politically motivated, but that its main statement is very imprecise and allows interpretations.)

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