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Background
Since 2010 the People's Republic of China has been engaged in an effort to reform its system of organ transplantation by developing a voluntary organ donation and allocation infrastructure. This has required a shift in the procurement of organs sourced from China's prison and security apparatus to hospital-based voluntary donors declared dead by neurological and/or circulatory criteria. Chinese officials announced that from January 1, 2015, hospital-based donors would be the sole source of organs. This paper examines the availability, transparency, integrity, and consistency of China's official transplant data.
[...] Results
COTRS [(China Organ Transplant Response System )] data conforms almost precisely to a mathematical formula (which first appeared to be a general quadratic, but with further confirmatory data was discovered to be a simpler one-parameter quadratic) while Central Red Cross data mirrors it, albeit imperfectly. The analysis of both datasets suggests human-directed data manufacture and manipulation. Contradictory, implausible, or anomalous data artefacts were found in five provincial datasets, suggesting that these data may have been manipulated to enforce conformity with central quotas. A number of the distinctive features of China's current organ procurement and allocation system are discussed, including apparent misclassification of nonvoluntary donors as voluntary.
Conclusion
A variety of evidence points to what the authors believe can only be plausibly explained by systematic falsification and manipulation of official organ transplant datasets in China. Some apparently nonvoluntary donors also appear to be misclassified as voluntary. This takes place alongside genuine voluntary organ transplant activity, which is often incentivized by large cash payments. These findings are relevant for international interactions with China's organ transplantation system.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12910-019-0406-6
(Score: 2) by Subsentient on Tuesday November 19 2019, @06:01AM (1 child)
It's easy to give up and let the Chinese trolls and naysayers spew their sewage about "oh the USA is just as bad", and "it's saving good people!".
Well, fuck that.
I want to talk to the Chinese shills.
I know you almost certainly don't believe in a god, I don't either. I have good reason to believe that there is nothing good waiting for us when we die.
The truth is, there is nothing in the universe that can wash your sins away.
There is no redemption, and there is no forgiveness. Not for you, not for anyone.
You will be erased, and forgotten, and the world will still be slightly worse for you ever having existed in the first place.
Those who love you will only love you because they don't see the ugliness inside you.
I can see it. I can see how weak and sickening you are on the inside. Please kill yourselves.
Okay, back on topic.
For all the US's abominations, and there are more than enough to choose from, when you look at what China is doing to its citizens and the world around it, you can only logically side with the US on an ethical basis. In the truest sense, they are, verifiably, the lesser of the two evils.
And you know damn well those organs aren't going to "good people", they're going to filthy rich oligarchs who are afraid to face the end of their worthless existence.
Why the hell do you think China wants them? They're just killing Falun Gong practitioners and anyone who points out the CCP's innumerable atrocities.
Death to the Chinese government.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 19 2019, @01:13PM
If you're genuinely interested in having some sort of a discussion with people who disagree with you, it might behoove you to not start out by preemptively labeling them all shills, wishing death upon them, and then further adding in a retrofitted 'Death to Imperalists' tagline. Just a thought.