Gordon's Notes

Uplifting the naked ape is having mixed results ... Your money for your life - enslaving the cognitively disabled (China) Out of more tha...

Susanne Lundin is Professor of Ethnology at Lund University, Sweden. This commentary of hers appeared in Daily News Egypt ... The great org...

The kidney trade is growing ... The village of the kidneys - Nepali Times : A village near Kathmandu is the "Kidney Bank". Desp...

It occurred to me that a custom Google news section would help me track the worldwide retail organ business. The results were more impress...

Organlegging was Larry Niven’s 1970s term for trafficking in human organs . Gibson’s fiction, including the fabulous ( 1984!! ) Neuromancer ...

The mob goes where the money is, though this time it’s not Italian … Dozens Arrested in New Jersey Corruption Probe - WSJ.com … The...

A surgeon expresses the thoughts on the mind of every physician who’s heard that Steve Jobs received a liver transplant (per WSJ) for a meta...

FuturePundit: Pregnancy Surrogacy Outsourced To India . No surprises, unfortunately. I'm tagging this one as " organ trade ", ...

I used to think that one good feature of the religious right was that they might slow the day we harvest clones for organs. Then came the eu...

Connections are established, reinforced, strengthened. The river finds a new channel. The new flow alters other flows and channels. The rive...

Corzine didn't wear a seatbelt . It's a characteristic of humans, they confuse power over people with power over physics. Kudos to ...

I'm surprised the government is taking action; I'd not thought they were really feeling pressured. China issues human organ transpl...

The transfer of organs from the weak to the strong, from the poor to the richer, is not a slippery slope . No, not at all. Slippery implies ...

We've known for years that China harvested organs from condemned prisoners. I, like many others, expected this practice to be monetized....

Larry Niven made his mark as a science fiction writer in the 1970s and 1980s. Among his earlier writings are a series of stories about organ...

The Australian: It's a miracle: mice regrow hearts [August 29, 2005] The web is alive with news of a gen-engineered mice that can re...