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. The paper’s findings are already prompting calls for some medical cooperation with China to be frozen. “It shows that it was premature to believe everything that China said without any scrutiny,” Wendy Rogers, a professor of clinical ethics at Macquarie University in Sydney told AFP. “I certainly think there should be a moratorium on any engagement with China on anything to do with transplantation. Robertson’s paper was examined by noted University of Cambridge statistician David Spiegelhalter, who reran the data analysis and found his results “exactly matched that of the authors.”In testimony to the China Tribunal, Spiegelhalter noted that China’s smoothly rising donor rates stood out markedly from other comparable countries.--AFP

Source: New Strait Times November 14, 2019 13:07 UTC