Russian surgeon finds a 2 inch fir tree in a patients lung. How did it get there?
I’m pretty skeptical of this story. Consider the source. The story first appeared in Komsomolskaya Pravda which is a Russian tabloid newspaper. Then other papers like the Telegraph in the UK picked up the story not doing any of there own research and just reporting what the tabloid said. Note the last line of the Telegraph article you cite, “There was no independent verification of the surgeon’s claims. ” It’d be no different for the National Enquirer to make some wild story up, and then real news organizations report the story without actually researching if there is a shred of truth to it, and then lazily at the end of the story say “this story hasn’t been verified.” Sometimes tabloids like the Russian one and the National Enquirer will have a truthful story, but there sure are a whole lot of junk stories that go with them. You can read a study from India where a blade of grass was found in a child’s lung, but there has never been any proof that I could find that plants can grow insi
