The Pregnant Man
My wife once told me she read of a news article in a prominent Malayalam newspaper about a pregnant man. I told her she must be confused with the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie Junior, where he becomes pregnant. She told me this was a real man and his photo had appeared in the daily (and yes, it was not an April fool's joke).
So I decided to do a little bit of sleuthing, which is not that hardest thing in the world of Google. First I did a Google search for "pregnant man" and I was taken to the website http://www.malepregnancy.com/. I checked the website and golly! There is a pregnant man! This was a website of RYT Hospital - Dwayne Medical Center which has carried out a medical miracle. The pregnant man was Mr. Lee Mingwei. His photo had apparently appeared even on the cover of Time magazine (This website has a photo of the Time magazine cover). There was also a live ultrasound image of this man. There was an extensive medical report on how this was achieved. I had heard of practically every news of biological breakthroughs, from the cloning of sheep to the sequencing of the DNA. But I had totally missed out on the news of the Pregnant Man.
Since his article had appeared on the cover of Time magazine, I decided to plow through the archives of Time magazine. Since my wife had read the article in 2003, I decided to go through the archives from 2002 to 2003. Time magazine is a weekly so I had only about 104 images of the Times cover to go through. I did not find the Time cover of Mr. Mingwei that RYT Hospital had so proudly posted on their website.
Then I did a search on Google for "hoax pregnant man". And then I was led to the website http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aa100400a.htm. This site of course tells the truth about Mr. Lee Mengwei. If you check the site out male pregnancy website, you will find that Mr. Mengwei is still pregnant (even after 3 years).
One question. Is there any moral?
So I decided to do a little bit of sleuthing, which is not that hardest thing in the world of Google. First I did a Google search for "pregnant man" and I was taken to the website http://www.malepregnancy.com/. I checked the website and golly! There is a pregnant man! This was a website of RYT Hospital - Dwayne Medical Center which has carried out a medical miracle. The pregnant man was Mr. Lee Mingwei. His photo had apparently appeared even on the cover of Time magazine (This website has a photo of the Time magazine cover). There was also a live ultrasound image of this man. There was an extensive medical report on how this was achieved. I had heard of practically every news of biological breakthroughs, from the cloning of sheep to the sequencing of the DNA. But I had totally missed out on the news of the Pregnant Man.
Since his article had appeared on the cover of Time magazine, I decided to plow through the archives of Time magazine. Since my wife had read the article in 2003, I decided to go through the archives from 2002 to 2003. Time magazine is a weekly so I had only about 104 images of the Times cover to go through. I did not find the Time cover of Mr. Mingwei that RYT Hospital had so proudly posted on their website.
Then I did a search on Google for "hoax pregnant man". And then I was led to the website http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aa100400a.htm. This site of course tells the truth about Mr. Lee Mengwei. If you check the site out male pregnancy website, you will find that Mr. Mengwei is still pregnant (even after 3 years).
One question. Is there any moral?
posted by Shailesh Nair | 12:46 PM
4 Comments:
that question was a rhetoric one
The moral is donot beleive everything you see or read just because it comes through a usually reliable medium.
Achan
The moral is donot beleive everything you see or read just because it comes through a usually reliable medium.
Achan
The moral is donot beleive everything you see or read just because it comes through a usually reliable medium.
Achan
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