The PR Man for China’s Organ Transplantation Is Not Believable

For years, gaining attention for forced organ harvesting in China was difficult to achieve because the crime itself was too horrible to believe. This understandable horror may now be leading some observers to be too eager to believe this atrocity has now ended.

Take, for example, Dr. Francis L. Delmonico, past president (serving 2012–2014) and current council member of The Transplantation Society, which provides “global focus for leadership in transplantation,” according to its website.

Delmonico did not deny that horrible things have been done in China, but he nonetheless brought an optimistic message about transplantation there. His hopefulness hangs heavily on the credibility of one person, a Chinese transplant surgeon and bureaucrat named Huang Jiefu.

According to Delmonico, Huang is leading the way for the ethical reform of China’s transplantation industry.

Unfortunately, Huang has no credibility. He lacks authority to lead reform in China, and those who have authority have not adopted his pronouncements as their own. Moreover, Huang has in the past had a clear conflict of interest in reforming the sourcing of organs for transplantation.

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POPE APPOINTS FRANCIS L. DELMONICO AS AN ACADEMICIAN OF THE PONTIFICAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

THE TRANSPLANTATION SOCIETY WOULD LIKE TO CONGRATULATE FRANCIS L. DELMONICO ON HIS APPOINTMENT AS AN ACADEMICIAN OF THE PONTIFICAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ON FEBRUARY 15, 2016 BY HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS.

Candidates for this prestigious appointment are selected on the basis of their eminent original scientific studies and of their acknowledged moral personality, without any ethnical or religious discrimination, and are appointed for life by sovereign act of the Holy Father. The Pontifical Academy of Sciences was established in 1936 by Pope Pius XI. Its aim is to promote the progress of the mathematical, physical, and natural sciences and the study of related epistemological problems.