Chapter 2523: Debunking Pseudoscience

Li Huaien found himself once again caught by Dr. Xie, hitting him where it hurts. Could this be self-inflicted suffering?

"Dr. Xie, do the issues you mentioned relate to what happened today?" Li Huaien’s tone became cautious and wary.

"The public is worried about selling a child’s organs to save another child. I can’t provide evidence of organ trafficking, and I don’t actually have such evidence. However, as a doctor, I can list the actual medical data for you. Take pediatric heart transplantation for example, a child’s heart can accommodate a donor’s heart in the ratio of 0.9 to 2.5 to 1. This means the heart that the child receives can be 0.9 to 2.5 times the size of the child’s original heart. You should understand what 2.5 times represents."

"2.5?" Upon realizing the significance of this number, Li Huaien was indeed surprised, "This heart is 2.5 times larger than the child’s heart, doesn’t that mean—"

"Basically, both domestically and internationally, most cases of heart transplants for children over ten years old are done using adult hearts due to the scarcity of child donors. For children under ten, in the absence of child organ donors, doctors will also maximize the use of adult hearts for transplantation. The reason why larger children receive adult hearts for transplants is to leave space for organ transplant survival for much younger infants and toddlers."

"Doesn’t this further confirm the scarcity of children’s organs?"

"Scarcity doesn’t necessarily mean there’s trafficking. If there were widespread organ trafficking of children, why would doctors and patients overwhelmingly rely on adult hearts?" Xie Wanying mentioned this and couldn’t help but laugh. Just like Senior Cao said, the criteria for determining brain death in children are hundreds of times stricter than for adults. When the public hears this story version that seems like bullying the weak, it easily arouses sympathy, but lacks logical thinking ability.

Widespread child organ trafficking is unlikely, which means significant loopholes are unlikely. Under these conditions, how could a child growing up in urban areas and a warm family expose the so-called truth about child organ trafficking everywhere? Frankly, the police think this matter is too absurd and ridiculous and are unwilling to investigate.

After being struck by the facts stated by the doctor, Li Huaien was almost rendered speechless.

Xie Wanying knew that the person in front of her was a professional journalist who wouldn’t easily give up.

A professional journalist is adept at raising another poignant topic to probe the counterpart’s weaknesses and restore their dignity. Li Huaien, similarly, suddenly looked up slyly and asked her, "Dr. Xie, you doctors should advocate science. The hospital tells families that donated organs allow the deceased child to live on in another body; do you think this statement is correct? Are you sure your hospital isn’t smuggling goods in secrecy? Isn’t this superstitious mumbo-jumbo?"

"I believe you should know that in clinical practice there’s something called a placebo, and a type of treatment called psychotherapy. Can you say these belong to superstition? Some families develop severe psychological disorders after the patient passes away. This should be a vulnerable group you journalists and society should focus on. Moreover, donated organs will resume their function in another person’s body, which is a scientific fact. I don’t understand why you insist on interpreting this continued functioning of organs as supernatural."

Li Huaien: Utter defeat~