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Milkshake Duck gets pig heart

By Timothy P. Carney
Published January 14, 2022 6:46pm ET
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Milkshake Duck gets pig heart
This photo provided by the family shows, from left, David Bennett Jr., Preston Bennett, David Bennett Sr., Gillian Bennett, Nicole (Bennett) McCray, Sawyer Bennett, and Kristi Bennett in 2019. In a medical first, doctors transplanted a pig heart into Bennett Sr. | (Byron Dillard via AP)
Pig Heart Transplant
This photo provided by the family shows, from left, David Bennett Jr., Preston Bennett, David Bennett Sr., Gillian Bennett, Nicole (Bennett) McCray, Sawyer Bennett, and Kristi Bennett in 2019. In a medical first, doctors transplanted a pig heart into Bennett Sr.


Scientists genetically engineered a pig so that it had a more humanlike heart, and doctors have transplanted that heart into a patient who needed one.

This is 2022, and so the story can’t be about the science. Instead, two of the largest national newspapers have run full-length stories about how the guy getting the heart transplant is no angel.

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