BS Summary: This article contains 16 faulty reasoning types, including Representativeness Heuristic, Status Quo Bias, and Confirmation Bias, with In-Group Bias as the most egregious example at 41.8% saturation with 82 hits. Analysis detected 446 faulty-reasoning hits from 196 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 65.4% and a BS Rank of 73% (4,693 of 16,813 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 72.10% of the article peer group.
It’s rare for anyone to donate a kidney, and most of the time, the organ goes to someone close to the donor, like a spouse, a sibling or a parent.
Altruistic kidney donation — the kind Lane did — is when you give the organ to a complete stranger.
That kind of gift is even rarer, so much so that lots of people question the motives of the donor.
Lane herself went through a rigorous screening to become eligible for the procedure.
Along the way, she learned the history of kidney donation and met others who’ve made the choice to give a kidney to someone they’d never know or meet.
Again and again, she encountered the same idea: It’s not a question of why anyone would give away a kidney, it’s why wouldn’t you?
Penny Lane joins us to talk about her film.
We’re screening “Confessions of a Good Samaritan” in partnership with the Utah Film Center on Wednesday, March 11, at 7 p.m.
Tickets are free but you’ll need to RSVP.
You’ll find the details here.
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Penny Lane is a documentary filmmaker.
She has produced eight feature documentaries, including “Confessions of a Good Samaritan.”
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