Found a 2009 YouTube video about a green, healthy looking fir tree growing inside a man's lung. CNN video shows a surgeon and the patient being interviewed.. was it a hoax?

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• CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m thinking about hoax since plants need sunlight to grow and there’s no sunlight inside your lungs.

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• TheFogan@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  journal.chestnet.org/article/…/fulltext , looks pretty hoaxy

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  • frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    idk what to make of the doctor and the patient being interviewed. is there a way to find out if they were just actors or smth?

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    • TheFogan@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      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.

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• FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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.

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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.

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