Top 10 Bogus ISIS Stories

[Warpy]

26. They missed one, the perennial favorite of modern war propaganda

http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/18/middleeast/isis-organ-harvesting-claim/

Uh, folks, it doesn't work that way any more than it worked on those tourists who woke up in bathtubs full of ice with both kidneys gone in the early 90s. Organ matching takes time, too much time to keep organs viable. You can't just toss them into chilled saline in a beer cooler and keep them on the shelf until you get a customer through the door. Kidneys have a shelf life of just over 24 hours. Hearts, lungs and livers have far less.

While they might relish the idea, those organs would earn them peanuts compared to stolen petroleum and its products, too little to bother keeping prisoners alive long enough to find a tissue match, sell organs on the black market and manage to transport them to the recipient.

Besides, you can bet their surgeons are just a little busy trying to patch their fighters up enough to send back into battle.