Iranian woman gives birth to 'frog' - Muslim inbreeding runs amok?
ArKLyte_
Iranian woman gives birth to frog
BBC
27 June, 2004
An Iranian newspaper has reported the controversial story of a woman
who claims to have given birth to a frog. The Iranian daily Etemaad
says the creature is believed to have grown from larva to an adult
frog inside her body.
While it is unclear how this could have happened, the paper carries
quotes from medical experts who say there are human characteristics to
the animal.
It has been speculated that the woman, who has not been named,
unknowingly picked up the larva while she was swimming in a dirty
pool.
The woman, from the south-eastern city of Iranshahr, is a mother of
two children.
The "so-called frog", as the newspaper puts it, has yet to undergo
precise genetic and anatomic tests.
But it quotes clinical biology expert Dr Aminifard as saying: "The
similarities are in appearance, the shape of the fingers and the size
and shape of the tongue."
Medical history recounts stories of people who believed they had frogs
- or even lizards or snakes - living and growing in their bodies.
One of the most famous was the 17th Century case of Catharina
Geisslerin, known as "the toad-vomiting woman" of Germany.
When she died in 1662 doctors are said to have performed an autopsy,
but found no evidence animals had ever lived inside her body.
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ArKLyte_
Bob Cooper
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> Who's yo' daddy ....
Ribbit!
Adam Helberg
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Polyglot
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> Iranian woman gives birth to frog
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> BBC
>
> 27 June, 2004
>
> An Iranian newspaper has reported the controversial story of a woman
> who claims to have given birth to a frog. The Iranian daily Etemaad
> says the creature is believed to have grown from larva to an adult
> frog inside her body.
>
A more contemporary version concerns a couple who ate wood, twigs and
hallucinogenic leaves . They gave birth to a Bush. They continued to feed
the Bush on hallucinogenics .
Eventually the Bush lost all sense of reality and became convinced that all
the animals in the forest were out to get him ...so he tried to kill
anything that moved. Some of the animals decided that enough was enough and
tried to destroy the Bush , but it didn't work and the Bush said "See I told
you I was right" !
Jeff
ladder and it looks as if they've reached the frog stage.
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kuff (Isaac Adams)
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The French are in bed with the Iranians too?
Adam Helberg
Thomas®
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> Iranian woman gives birth to frog
>
> BBC
>
> 27 June, 2004
>
> An Iranian newspaper has reported the controversial story of a woman
> who claims to have given birth to a frog. The Iranian daily Etemaad
> says the creature is believed to have grown from larva to an adult
> frog inside her body.
>
Thomas®
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Wow, another imaculate conception, but frog daddy can shoot cum all the way
from Iran to the west bank!
They don't need WMDs, just more frogs.
Logos
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>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3844441.stm
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>> Iranian woman gives birth to frog
>>
>> BBC
>>
>> 27 June, 2004
>>
>> An Iranian newspaper has reported the controversial story of a woman
>> who claims to have given birth to a frog. The Iranian daily Etemaad
>> says the creature is believed to have grown from larva to an adult
>> frog inside her body.
>>
>[snip]
Perhaps, she kissed a frog hoping it was a prince.
Logos :)
gioca...@libero.it
Remove A B C
Paul A Abeles
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Yes Arafat does look like a frog, and Sharon looks like a cane toad.
Remarkable resemblances in fact.
Andy
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Unbelievable !!! It is very common to give a birth to pigs by Muslims,
especially Muslims Arab women, but to give a birth to frog ? I think Allah
has schizophrenia from drugs overdosing.
Lance Lamboy
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>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3844441.stm
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>> Iranian woman gives birth to frog
>>
>> BBC
>>
>> 27 June, 2004
>>
>> It has been speculated that the woman, who has not been named,
>> unknowingly picked up the larva while she was swimming in a dirty pool.
>
>
> Well, this method of impregnation would seem to explain why women in
> this part of the world are turning out the monsters they are. It all
> makes sense now!
>
> Jane Fondles Moore
Barbara Bush must have been quite a swimmer.
--
Lance Lamboy
"Go F*ck Yourself" ~ Dick Cheney
Ashley O'Dell
from http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/news/news.jsp
"EVEN A FROG WILL KICK THE BBC" [see link for photo supplements and
links]
by Ashley O'Dell and Rhonda Roland Shearer
Art Science Research Lab
http://asrlab.org
New York City
On June 27, 2004, the BBC reported on an Iranian woman who gave birth
to a frog. Their story originated from the Farsi paper Etemaad:
The BBC published a photo of a frog with the caption "Tests are being
carried out on the frog."
The pairing of this photo and caption implies that the frog in the
photo is the Iranian woman's "frog child." It also implied that tests
are being carried out on this very frog. However, we discovered that
the frog in the photo is not even native to Iran.
David Dickey of the American Museum of Natural History identified the
frog in the BBC photo as a Chinese Gliding Frog, Polypedates dennysi,
found only in southern China. He noted that students remembered seeing
this species at the museum's current frog exhibition. Dickey called
the frog child story "the worst, most ridiculous example" of bad
journalism he had ever seen.
Dickey recommended speaking to the world expert on Chinese frogs,
Kraig Adler, Professor of Biology and Vice Provost for Life Sciences
at Cornell University.
Dr. Adler told us that the frog child story is "biologically
impossible."
"Humans produce human offspring and frogs produce frog offspring," he
said. "This is one of the laws of genetics, based as we now know on
the fact that different species have different (although often many of
the same) genes. Thus, if some of this Iranian woman's genes passed to
her embryo were defective, she would produce a defective human baby
(and probably stillborn because of the defects) and not a frog."
Adler suggested two possible explanations: "A woman gave "birth" to a
grossly misshapen baby that looked like a frog," or the story was "a
fraudulent incident intended to raise interest for some reason."
Dr. John Friel, Curator of Fishes, Amphibians & Reptiles for the
Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates called the BBC story "highly
suspect," and also identified the BBC's photo as a likely stock image.
"More than likely this woman delivered a malformed human fetus like
superficially resembled a frog [in] some way."
Dickey and Harry W. Greene, Professor and Curator of Cornell
University's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology both said
this frog tale reminded them of another BBC story published December
29, 2003. The BBC reported that Indonesian villagers claimed to have
captured "a python which is almost 15 metres (49 feet) long." They
attributed the story to "newspapers" and "a local official," saying
"If confirmed, it would be the longest snake ever held in captivity."
The same day, CNN reported the story with their own acknowledgement
that, like the BBC, they had not verified the snake's measurement,
saying "it was difficult to confirm the claim as there were no
measuring tapes or objects beside the snake to compare its size."
On December 30, 2003, the BBC published a second story in the form of
a photo essay on the snake. This story treated the unverified claims
of the previous story as fact and used the Indonesian newspapers
"facts" without sourcing them.
BBC's caption reads: "A stretch on a bench gives a glimpse of the
beast's full, record-breaking 15-metre (49-foot) length."
By January 7, Reuters had debunked the "record-breaking" snake early
and revealed the snake's true dimensions:
"Amid growing skepticism of the claim, a photographer working for
Reuters returned to the Curugsewu park in the small central Java town
of Kendal on Wednesday with a measuring tape. The snakeӮs true length
-- around 21 feet."
"If the snake were really 43 feet those Indonesians would have dwarfed
folks we ordinarily consider giants!" Professor Greene said. "The
snake turned out to be a respectably large but by no means huge female
Reticulated Python."
Despite Reuters' correction, the BBC's original snake story remains
online, uncorrected.
We notified the BBC that the Chinese Gliding Frog illustrating their
story was not found outside southern China. We further informed them
that their "frog child" photo had been published months earlier in an
article about the very museum exhibition in which Dickey's students
had reported seeing an example of the Chinese Gliding Frog.
Within hours, the BBC editor informed us that the graphic accompanying
the story had been changed and that they were reviewing further
corrections.
"How did this EVER get taken seriously, in the absence of any credible
evidence?" Professor Greene asks.
Urban Legend tracker site Snopes.com places the "frog child" story in
the same category as folk superstitions where, for example, a "young
girl who mysteriously becomes pregnant is discovered to have swallowed
octopus eggs." Snopes says:
"This motif remains popular in films such as Alien, which features a
crew member 'impregnated' by an alien creature; once the incubation
period is complete, the alien lifeform is 'born' by bursting out
through his chest. As [Harold] Schechter notes [in The Bosom Serpent:
Folklore and Popular Art] 'like the traditional, oral versions that
have been popular for hundreds of years, [the] only purpose [of the
birth scene in Alien] is to produce emotional response: shock,
revulsion, morbid fascination.'"
Greene says the story, under any circumstances, would be "extremely
unlikely. To me it sounded right off the pages of a supermarket
tabloid."
African news portal Ghanaweb agreed; in their re-reporting of the BBC
story, they classified it as "Gossip News" under the banner of "The
Tabloids: A look at the lighter side of the news & life."
A BBC editor who spoke with us about the "frog child" story said,
"I've gotten used to [the lack of fact-checking] along the way ... I
have to distance myself. It embarrasses me."
FoxNews.com, in a June 29 article called "Distorted Times?" cites the
"slippery" frog child story as evidence of their claim that BBC is
currently "struggling with complaints about the fairness and accuracy
of its work."
There is a Hindu proverb that says "When an elephant is in trouble
even a frog will kick him."
The "frog child" might have just turned BBC into Dumbo.
Eli Varenberg contributed source material to this report.
Richard Dell
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> !!!!!!!!!!!!UPDATE ON THE FROG CHILD STORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> from http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/news/news.jsp
>
> "EVEN A FROG WILL KICK THE BBC" [see link for photo supplements and
> links]
How low has the BBC sunk from their position as the bastion of truth during WW2.
Their trouble is that they have a confused identity as a Public Service
broadcaster who is trying to make an impact on the world scene. The latter
drives to commercialism and tabloid quality journalism. So we get the Gilligan
affair, which should never have got to air, and even experienced journos like
John Humphries getting "political". They do not seem to be able to separate the
editorial from the straight reporting - the latter should be accurate and
dispassionate. It all now gets mixed up in a mess of liberal spin on
everything - exactly what they accuse the Labour Government of. Now we get this
absurd frog story , which even Esther Rantzen in her days of rampant ambition
would cringe at.
sara
I wonder if they will call her Shirin after her mother?
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Alborz
if you want to see a frog , look at the next mirror.
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sara
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> miss calm darling
Bozie sweetie,
I know you dont fancy frogs. But I know a nice donkey who is the new Spanish
prime minister. If you want I can arrange a date?