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posted by martyb on Thursday February 07 2019, @10:48PM   Printer-friendly
from the organ-'donors' dept.

https://www.foxnews.com/science/barbaric-human-organs-harvested-from-chinese-prisoners-prompts-outrage-call-for-retraction-of-400-scientific-papers:

A group of researchers is calling for the retraction of more than 400 scientific papers after a first-of-its-kind study that claims countless human organs were unethically harvested from prisoners in China.

The study, which was published in the journal BMJ Open and led by Australian researchers, highlights a facet of scientific ethics that does not receive a lot of attention. Namely, that many English-language academic journals do not follow international ethics rules over donor consent for organ transplants.

“There’s no real pressure from research leaders on China to be more transparent,” Wendy Rogers, a professor of clinical ethics at Macquarie University and the study’s author, told the Guardian. “Everyone seems to say, ‘It’s not our job.’ The world’s silence on this barbaric issue must stop.”

[...] The study looked at research papers published from January 2000 until April 2017. Researchers identified 445 studies involving 85,477 transplants. A staggering 92.5 percent failed to report whether or not organs were sourced from executed prisoners, while 99 percent failed to report that organ sources gave consent for transplantation.


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  • (Score: 2) by Nuke on Friday February 08 2019, @11:29AM

    by Nuke (3162) on Friday February 08 2019, @11:29AM (#798258)

    When I saw the title, I assumed the donors were still alive, and I thought, yes, that is a bit bad. However, as they were already dead I see no problem.

    There is a more extreme situation with experiments done on living subjects in German prison camps during WW2 - whether the results should be taken into any account.

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