Link to YouTube video in the vid the surgeon and the patient are interviewed. it was a CNN report
Asking cuz I can’t find the actual case report of this anywhere but according to other news reports this case was first published on April 1st 2009. the doctors said the man inhaled a fir tree seed and the fir tree grew in his lung
going to Reddit was unhelpful since they just kept making the same jokes over and over again so I’m wondering if people more knowledgable than me can confirm or deny the authenticity of this lol
I’m thinking about hoax since plants need sunlight to grow and there’s no sunlight inside your lungs.
https://journal.chestnet.org/article/S0012-3692(09)60635-8/fulltext , looks pretty hoaxy
Yeah same but idk what to make of the doctor and the patient being interviewed in the CNN video i linked. is there a way to find out if they were actors or smth? interview with the surgeon who discovered the tree is at the 25 second mark and it gives his name too
It sounds like the initial story was slated to air on april 1st. Origions of the story are hard to trace, and it sounds like the source itself is known for running with hoaxes. So maybe they were actors, maybe just a doctor looking for attention. Biggest thing is a lack of any real details or credibility to work with. Kind of how most hoaxes go. they leave out key details so that you can’t fact check them.
I think what you’re not picking up on is the whole Ms. Moos vibe on CNN. She is basically satire. She always jumps on the most outrageous stories and narrates them in that annoying pseudo journalistic voice and has done for decades. The stories may be actually true but you should never assume that they are. They are a knock knock joke for people who watch 24h news channels.
I don’t know anything about this case more than having watched the CNN video. Mr. Fir-lung and his doctor needn’t be actors. He could’ve really had it in his lung but played up the “haha, maybe I breathed in a seed” line because it got him attention on TV and paid interviews. And he doesn’t mention how he was in a landslide being chased by a bear 5 years ago and that’s when he accidentally inhaled the debris. The doctor may just have mentioned in a subordinate clause that it looked as if the sprig was growing in the lung but never actually claimed it did. Or he also believes in homeopathy. Or he also got paid for the interview. There are a thousand explanations why we get presented the story like that. But the biggest red flag remains that Jeanne Moos was reporting on it.
I loathe that woman’s goddamned voice. I think she’s trying to channel Barbara Walters. Second I hear it, off she goes because I know bullshit is coming into my ear canal.
