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The issues of organ donation and transplant are too important to be left to just the traditional media. The musician known as Jello Biafra said, “Don’t hate the media, become the media.”

The donation and transplant community grows every day because we lead the world in the science behind it all. We will try very hard to present all ideas and help separate fact from spin.

SID&T, will bring you news, opinion, and fact checks along the way.

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Congress and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Misled on Organ Donation and Transplant
Congress and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Misled on Organ Donation and Transplant

To the great detriment of over 100,000 patients on the organ transplant waiting list, a Congressional committee has once again held a hearing, ignoring evidence-based, peer-reviewed lifesaving science. False narratives are misleading policy makers.

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Fact Check

 
 

President of the Association of Organ Procurement Organizations Colleen McCarthy stated in an op-ed on May 23, 2024 regarding organ donation and transplant,

“nearly 20% of donated organs go unused. Last year alone, more than 10,000 organs recovered from generous donors — over 8,500 of which were kidneys — were not transplanted into patients.”

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Opinion

 

POGO Becomes PAY GO

Adam Zagorin’s latest piece of propaganda in support of new organ donation rules castigates the non-profits charged by congress to recover organs in the United States. 

His piece published on the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) website recklessly draws false conclusions. We do not know if ignorance, misguidedness, or profit motivated Mr. Zagorin’s rant. We at Science in Donation would like to call out the falsities in the POGO piece …

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