forced organ harvesting

[JAB]

Study casts doubt on China's claims to have ended forced organ
harvesting from prisoners

SYDNEY – China is engaged in the “systemic falsification” of voluntary
organ donation data, an academic paper suggested Friday, calling into
question Beijing’s claim to have ended forced harvesting of organs
from prisoners.

In a study published in the peer-reviewed journal BMC Medical Ethics,
three academics examined China’s official national and provincial
transplant data and determined it was likely “man-made” based on a
“mathematical model.”

China began producing the voluntary donation data a decade ago to help
prove it had stopped the practice of harvesting organs from prisoners
— and was now only taking them from willing donors.

But the Australian National University’s Matthew Robertson, one of the
paper’s authors, said they studied official data from 2010 to 2016 and
found that “there were numerous signs that the data was made up.”

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/15/asia-pacific/study-casts-doubt-chinas-claims-ended-forced-organ-harvesting-prisoners/

[RS Wood]

On 2019-11-15, JAB <he...@is.invalid> wrote:
> Study casts doubt on China's claims to have ended forced organ
> harvesting from prisoners
>
> SYDNEY – China is engaged in the “systemic falsification” of
> voluntary organ donation data, an academic paper suggested Friday,
> calling into question Beijing’s claim to have ended forced
> harvesting of organs from prisoners.

Sadly, not very surprising.