I don’t know anything about the reliability of either IBT-SF or SBS, but everything about this story just screams “THIS IS COMPLETELY MADE UP”. The details are sketchy and the premise is questionable - are we, the reader, meant to believe that ground-up babies are openly and legally sold as supplements in China?
The show that broadcast this story is known for its sensationalism; that doesn’t mean it always makes shit up. I would guess that maybe they’ve found one hospital that does this and have decided to make it sound like everyone in China is in on it.
I would take it more seriously if KBS had picked it up. Still, other newspapers have reported that Chinese authorities are actually launching an investigation, so someone must be concerned that it’s real. Though it’s worth noting that most of the major newspapers haven’t picked up the story (except for one, an ultra-conservative paper that delights in making China look bad whenever they can).
Given that ‘Male Stamina Pills’ would either be the kind that work, and contain some sort of pharmaceutical substances, or the kind that don’t - and contain all sorts of hokey shit, combined with the fact that they’re being made in China (where it seems anything is possible), it could be completely true.
It feeds off suspicions of the Chinese over adulteration of drugs and use of endangered species for manufacture of supposed aphrodisiac products, the often dubious quality of Chinese health care and the willingness of anti-abortion rights advocates to believe these types of stories no matter how improbable or outright ludicrous.
Speaking as someone who is wary of the provenance of Chinese pharmaceuticals and supplements in general, this story sounds like bullshit.
Well, there was a scandal a few years ago about a hospital in the Ukraine where babies were kidnapped just after birth by the medical staff, murdered, dismembered, and some parts ground up and sent to a dodgy clinic in the Caribbean to be used as “stem cell” treatments to supposedly eliminate wrinkles on the faces of rich old women. Googling “BBC stem cell swindle” ought to bring it up. And Oprah sells a face cream made using foreskin fibroblasts, not quite the same thing and the remains of murdered and dismembered children, but still a bit distasteful.
I don’t believe this. But if it was true, I wouldn’t be surprised. Endangered animals are killed and maimed for their parts because they’re supposedly aphrodisiacs. What’s a few dead babies? Nothing should be off limits in the worldwide quest for men to work up an awesome, mighty wang.
I can see how this would work, just tell the gal you’re taking pills made out of dead babies for stamina and you’ll definitely last until she’s through with the whole thing…
Years ago some fundamentalist rag was raging about the evils of abortion in China. They titillated the audience with a story about how aborted fetuses were now being served as a “delicacies” in certain, unnamed restaurants. It was so over the top, that it had me wondering if they’d inadvertently picked it up from the Onion…:dubious:
Some of the anti-abortion crowd are willing to tell lies to stop abortions. I remember reading about one “abortionist” who was accused of eating “dead babies” for lunch.
And they are still pushing the “abortions cause breast cancer” idea that has been totally debunked.