POP! The First Human Male Pregnancy(Mr.Le...

I couldn’t find anything through search, but It’s probably because I have WEBTV and I’m computer illiterate, but I would like to know what doctors;lawyers, or anyone would know about this amazing turn of events, which evidently is no hoax.

Anyone with professional knowledge out there?

First, what’s the guy’s name? The title got cut off at ‘Mr. Le…’.

If you can find no information on it at all, why is it evidently not a hoax? :confused:

And I’m pretty good at Searching - either it’s breaking news, or it’s not out there as a new item tonight…

I think this is what you’re talking about.

It looks like a hoax to me. (Complete with Animated GIF for an EKG hehe)

LilShieste

Don’t have time to research it, but Lee Mingwei is also the name of a fairly well known conceptual/installation artist. Me thinks this might be- if not a hoax- then an “art project” of some sort…

This looks like a joke to me.

I don’t even want to think about where the baby would come out in a real-life case of this.

OWWWW! I just thought about it! Shattered penis! AGGGGH!

Oh, come on… Follow the links and you’ll be asked to place your thumb on the screen to have your DNA scanned to produce genetically-enhanced children.

I dunno-- I guess it might be a joke of some sort.

The credulity of some people scares the blue hell out of me.

Think ectopic; also think Time Magazine; also think CNN.

The guys name is Mr.Lee

Yeah, that’s it, LilShieste

Well, the Time and CNN articles looked pretty good to me.

Ectopic: Gestation elsewhere than uterus, as fallopian tube, or peritoneal cavity.

I’m still looking for professional opinions,though. No offense,Una, but I want to hear from a doctor,nurse,or lawyer.

Here you go, ageless6. This website of Urban Legends talks a little bit about the website (and the people who created it). It has a link towards the bottom to a page talking about ectopic pregnancy.

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aa100400a.htm

LilShieste

The CNN stories and whatever else are totally fake. They just used the CNN main template and saved it on their server.

LilShieste:

Looks like you’re the true unicorn killer.

I resign.

The FAQ says it’s not a hoax. Check it out:

Indeed, they are good spoofs. Good to the point of being legally doubtful, since they falsely attribute the copyright of the article to AOL-Time Warner, and use material that belongs to AOL-Time Warner for their own (however artistic) purposes.

Your skepticism should be raised by the lengths they go to to conceal the true source of what you are looking at, including javascript which:[ul][li]Puts a (redundant) clock in your status bar, so you can’t tell where links lead by placing your cursor over them.[*]Opens links in a new window, in which the address bar has been removed, so you can’t see where it actually is.[/ul][/li]
A closer examination of the CNN article shows that it is, in fact, hosted at malepregnancy.com, although most of the links will take you seamlessly to the genuine CNN.com.

I must admit, I love their sense of humour, actually including the phrase “Americans are so gullible” in the body of the article.

As for theTime cover, you didn’t notice that it was lacking a number of things that you would expect to find? Like the date, or a UPC code, or a price, or a reference to any other article within the pages of the magazine?

Well, IANADNOL, but I can refer you to the [url="http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual/section18/chapter252/252b.htm"Merck Medical Manual:

It should be clear even to a layman that an ectopic pregnancy would under no circumstances be deliberately induced, and could not possibly be brought to term.

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Man, I spent waaaay too much time on this post.

At any rate, ageless6, kudos for coming to the font of all human wisdom to get this thing cleared up for ya. :slight_smile:

And I previewed, and everything. Here’s a fixed link to the Merck Manual.

It is clearly time for Mudd to get some sleep.

Snopes, anyone?

Go DIRECTLY to CNN.com (don’t use the provided link) and do a search for the guy’s name.

You won’t find it.

Or you could have checked out Weird Earl’s link from last week right on the Straight Dope Homepage.
http://www.malepregnancy.com/# Inconceivable. (Submitted by Jerry and Motoko Cullins)”

Maybe 20 years ago I remember an article in OMNI magazine about human male pregnancy. My not-so-strong recollection is that the article described a similar process as in the hoax page. I wonder if they were inspired by that article?

Plus, that page has been up for about a year and a half. Should’ve been done with it by now! (If he’s in the 18th month of pregnancy, my hat is off to the guy. :rolleyes: )

This came up about a year ago – Um…Male Pregnancy?

That was the first thing I noticed too. – That the “live EKG” was an animated GIF.