Salemicus comments on Stupid Questions February 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Salemicus 04 February 2015 04:49:50PM 7 points [-]

It is legal to sell kidneys in Iran. As a result, Iran has no waiting lists for kidney transplantation. You can read an interesting study of the situation here. TLDR: it works well, but everything has tradeoffs.