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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.”
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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.”
Opinion
POGO Becomes PAY GO
Science in Donation
By Science in Donation
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 …