Re:Chinese boy sells kidney to buy an iPad 2
by rauljara on Thursday June 02, 2011 @11:42AM
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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-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?
Re:Chinese boy sells kidney to buy an iPad 2
by crocowhile on Thursday June 02, 2011 @02:16PM
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Let's say that I don't believe all I read about the organ trafficking but I may be very wrong in my believes.
Re:Chinese boy sells kidney to buy an iPad 2
by rogerbraun on Thursday June 02, 2011 @01:34PM
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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?
Re:Chinese boy sells kidney to buy an iPad 2
by jhamburger on Thursday June 02, 2011 @11:36AM
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Unless there is already an extensive network in place for organ trafficking, with complicity from hospitals.
Re:Chinese boy sells kidney to buy an iPad 2
by fredoliveira on Thursday June 02, 2011 @11:37AM
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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.
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.