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  • 2018-12-29 (xsd:date)
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  • Did CBS Report That 'Elites Are Lining Up to Ingest the Blood of Children'? (en)
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  • On 26 December 2018, the News Punch junk news site (formerly the equally disreputable Your News Wire junk news site) published an article claiming that CBS had reported on world leaders and elite businessmen who supposedly ingest the blood of young children in order to achieve ‘eternal youth’: That News Punch report was typically distorted and deliberately misleading, intended to foster a false picture of vampiric patrons feasting on the blood of children to maintain themselves in a state of youthful immortality. The underlying information that formed basis of the News Punch article did not come from CBS News, but rather from a two-minute, speculative health segment produced by Philadelphia television station KYW. And that segment did not state, or even remotely suggest, that anyone was ingesting the blood of young children in order to achieve eternal youth. That KYW segment was itself mostly a brief rehash of some recent studies which found that giving older mice infusions of blood plasma from younger mice seemingly improved the former's performance in learning and memory tests. Other studies are ongoing to determine whether the process might have any applicability in human beings: The segment also referenced the efforts of a company called Ambrosia, which as reported by Wired, performed a controversial human trial on a small group of subjects over age 35 whom they charged $8,000 each to receive a few liters of plasma donated by young adults: The effectiveness -- and advisability -- of even that small Ambrosia trial has been challenged by those who maintain it holds the potential to do more harm than good: The important points here are that 1) Nobody involved in any such studies (which are still largely confined to rodents) is ingesting the blood of children -- the few research efforts using humans to date involved subjects' receiving infusions/transfusions of blood plasma, not drinking blood, and 2) Even the controversial Ambrosia trial used blood plasma donated by young adults, not young children. In no case are world leaders and elite businessmen ... lining up to ingest the blood of young children, as falsely claimed by News Punch. (en)
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