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Here is a nine page investigative piece by the New York Times on the organ trade (the opening anecdote is about a kidney). http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/23/world/organ-trade-global-b...

It's a little dated (2004), but this certainly isn't the first time I've heard a mainstream news source report on organ trafficking.

Do you believe the whole organ trafficking thing is fake, or just this story?

Let's say that I don't believe all I read about the organ trafficking but I may be very wrong in my believes.

The story on the page you link to does not even add up. The title says that he sold his kidney for an iPad2, but later it says "he returned home with a laptop and an iPhone". So what did he buy?

Unless there is already an extensive network in place for organ trafficking, with complicity from hospitals.

Did you just base your rebuttal on the idea that there's no way someone could, say, buy a kidney and find the right buyer post-factum? It's not like there's no market for kidneys, sadly.