2019-02-06 Organ Harvesting in China

A report published today indicates that  over 90% of published articles reporting on transplant research from China fail to report on where the organs came from, despite international prohibition against the use of prisoner organs.  The article is freely available here:
https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/9/2/e024473

There is a companion discussion piece in the online academic newspaper the conversation:
https://theconversation.com/whose-hearts-livers-and-lungs-are-transplanted-in-china-origins-must-be-clear-in-human-organ-research-108077

The Guardian is running a front page story here:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/feb/06/call-for-retraction-of-400-scientific-papers-amid-fears-organs-came-from-chinese-prisoners

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