Technology
ISIS Sustainable Science Audit #2
Xenotransplantation:
How Bad Science and Big Business Put the World at Risk
from Viral Pandemics
by Mae-Wan Ho and Joe Cummins
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Summary
Xenotransplantation - the transplant of animal organs into human beings - is a multi-billion dollar business venture built on the
anticipated sale of patented techniques and organs, as well as drugs to overcome organ-rejection (1). It has received strong criticism
and opposition from scientists warning of the risks of new viruses crossing from animal organs to human subjects and from there to
infect the population at large. But regulators are adopting a permissive attitude for clinical trials to go ahead. Scientific reports of virus
crossing from pig to human cells (2) and of viral infections in humans subjects transplanted with baboon livers (3) are being ignored or
dismissed, while inconclusive, widely faulted papers are taken......
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