Professor Russell Strong - Human Organ Harvesting in China

Professor Russell Strong is a world-renowned transplant surgeon who pioneered liver transplant techniques that are now used around the world, saving countless lives. Throughout his distinguished career, he noticed a strange refusal by Chinese institutions and trainee doctors to commit to abstaining from organ harvesting. Ultimately Professor Strong fears that his techniques and his profession are being appropriated into the immoral organ harvesting market in China. He also believes that his profession is remaining silent and complicit with the Chinese regime, and has therefore called for countries in the West to place a form of ‘sanction’ on China by refusing to train their surgeons unless they can demonstrate a stand against organ harvesting. Watch this episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/Bn_I_ISjesc ------------------------------------------- DISCERNABLE Join our Town Hall on Ethics with special guest Acting Senior Sergeant Krystal Mitchell: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/learnethics The Podcast: http://discernable.io/listen The Crew Mailing List: https://discernable.io/crew The Video Archive: https://www.youtube.com/discernable & https://odysee.com/@discernable ------------------------------------------- 1:38 How the professor started in medicine 6:29 Transplanting adult livers into children and babies 8:19 The youngest liver transplant recipient 9:22 The regenerative properties of the liver 10:15 China and organ transplants 13:38 The ethics of non-consensual organ harvesting in China 17:53 Australian State Premiers are generating fear for their own benefit 19:40 Not allowed to see health advice 21:52 China denies any breach of human rights 28:32 How governments around the world respond to China’s human rights abuses 31:28 The censorship that China imposes 37:20 The complicity of training Chinese surgeons to harvest organs 42:05 The smear campaign against Professor Strong in the 1980s 42:54 The suppression of freedom of speech 45:06 The subordination of all countries to China 47:53 The medical profession must speak out against organ harvesting 51:35 Abandoning your ethics in desperate times 53:47 Can you justify taking someone’s life to save many? 55:19 The absurdity of pandemic restrictions in Australia 58:29 Are mandatory vaccinations justified? 1:06:27 Advancement doesn’t always mean progress 1:11:22 Predictions for the future 1:16:06 Hope for future generations of medical practitioners 1:17:56 Speaking with conviction 1:23:20 How to fix the entire world