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  ARC Live Streaming site ?

  by Gayle in

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  2. friends

  what is the exact live streaming site for the arc today in sydney?

  i hope someone or more here will be watching and giving info/quips throughout the case.

  also, will someone here or elsewhere be able to 'save' a video of this (all or part).

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  That was painful.

  Weird, pathetic, and predictable.

  Truly painful. Like watching someone at the dentist.
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  The A.R.C. broadcast on March 10. When to watch in your time zone.

  by ScenicViewer in

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  2. child-abuse

  planning on viewing or recording the live stream of the australian royal commission's investigation of watchtower on march 10, 2017?

  i believe the stream begins at 10 am aedt (australian eastern daylight time); you will need to figure out when that is in your local time zone.

  here is a time zone converter.

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  5 pm CST March 9

  The witness list has been released (thx to zeb for posting this on another thread) and there are only two witnesses who will appear:

  Terrence O'Brien and Rodney Spinks.

  http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/case-study/10908a67-70c5-4103-94cc-dac096fdb585/case-study-54,-march-2017,-sydney
  
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  What is the basis for advising “Don’t pursue higher studies”?

  by venus in

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  2. beliefs

  two elders who visited my friend last week encouraged her not to pursue higher studies.

  it seems they are dishing out the same old stuff: “the end is imminent, and this is the time to do more in the service; hence don’t waste your resources on higher studies.”.

  i wonder whether there was some official communiqué (something that is sent out recently like letter to the elders, or kingdom ministry article …).

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  RainbowTroll: This is a very old policy that goes back decades. There is nothing new about it.

  The policy is older than decades. It dates back to the days when the International Correspondence School was being established and was being promoted as a way of getting an education in the comfort of your own home. Over a hundred years ago.

  Two of the textbook writers for the ICS were also writers for the Watchtower Society - Clayton J. Woodworth and George Fisher. The early format of question and answer in the WT magazine and in the Studies of the Scriptures was based on the ICS model. Studying the Watchtower material would give you a "Bible education" and qualify you to become a colporteur that could sell a program of Bible Study to others - "in the comfort of your own home". Learning a trade as opposed to a university education was promoted in the Golden Age magazine. It was a double whammy for the ICS textbook writers who also wrote for the WT.
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  The Danger of Settlements

  by Tech49 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was pondering the recent influx of lawsuits against wt, specifically in regards to the child abuse cases (ie.

  conti, fessler, lopez, etc).. in each of these, wt has settled for an "undisclosed" amount, assumed to be in the millions of dollars each.

  i know there are many many more cases, subject for a different thread i'm sure.. i was reading something completely unrelated a while back that mentioned the dangers of settlement agreements for a large corporation or business (not just wt).

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  Finkelstein: Child sexual offenders are notorious to re-offend, that's part of the reason law authorities put them under close watchful regulation even when they are released from jail.
  A religoius organization or whatever should not be a place where sexual predators can be harbored or handled indiscriminately by the organizations themselves, which at most is done so to protect the outside image of that organization.

  Consider too, that the org targets convicted offenders before they are even released from custody.

  The JWs conduct organized visits inside the penal system and, it is quite likely that the religion becomes part of some convicts release conditions - where the elders continue those Bible Studies they started on the inside.

  Apparently, from what I have read about the JWs' prison visits, the religion acts as sponge for some offenders while they are still in jail. Some prisons have active congregations that recruit and hold meetings inside. Becoming a JW provides a protective space for them upon release. Parole approved activities - hanging out with the JW congregation. In the company of those elders who studied with them before they were released from jail.
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  Joachim Boldt - Two More Retractions for WT's bloodless "expert"

  by OrphanCrow in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  from retraction watch:.

  when you have 94 retractions, what's two more?.

  attention joachim boldt: the 1990s are calling, and they want their papers back.the annals of thoracic surgery has retracted two papers from the early 1990s on which boldt was the first author – bringing the retraction tally for the disgraced german anesthesiologist to 96, by our count.

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  For a pdf download of a list of all Boldt's clinical trials that were under review in 2011:

  Editors-in-Chief Statement Regarding Published Clinical Trials

  Conducted without IRB Approval by Joachim Boldt

  And a review of retractions in Jan 2013:

  To study journals' responses to a request from the State Medical Association of Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany, to retract 88 articles due to ethical concerns, and to check whether the resulting retractions followed published guidelines.

  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3899113/
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  Joachim Boldt - Two More Retractions for WT's bloodless "expert"

  by OrphanCrow in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  from retraction watch:.

  when you have 94 retractions, what's two more?.

  attention joachim boldt: the 1990s are calling, and they want their papers back.the annals of thoracic surgery has retracted two papers from the early 1990s on which boldt was the first author – bringing the retraction tally for the disgraced german anesthesiologist to 96, by our count.

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  BluesBrother: Householders will never have heard of Dr Boldt....

  Likely not. Unless they follow the medical world's research and have stumbled across his name. It appears like Boldt has the potential to be as well known as Wakefield. Maybe someday Boldt will be linked to the anti-blooder movement in the same way Wakefiled is to the anti-vaxxers:

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Boldt
  

  In February 2011, Boldt was stripped of his title of professor at the University of Giessen for failing to teach, and the university is investigating possible charges of scientific misconduct.[6] His case was described at the time as "possibly the biggest medical research scandal since Andrew Wakefield was struck off last year for falsely claiming to have proved a link between the MMR vaccine and autism."[2]

  The only place the regular JW will have heard of him will be inside the sacred word of the WT - the Awake magazine that quotes Boldt as an expert on bloodless surgery.

  They will have no clue that it was Dr. Boldt's research that was pivotal in the use of hydroxyethyl starch solutions, to boost blood volume during surgery, for Jehovah's Witness patients. The regular JW only sees the selected quote but they have no idea that Boldt's research is cited many times in the HLC's Helping Hands handbook - the one that the WT publishes to promote alternatives to blood transfusions.

  The regular JW won't know much about hydroxyethyl starch even though the HLC book has an entire section in it concerning its use and the risks associated with it.

  I just did a quick scan of just Parts 3&4 of the Helping Hands (HLC) Blood Conservation Techniques and Perioperative Planning, the book that the HLC uses with medical professionals, and I found "5" of Boldt's studies that have been retracted:

  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9503219

  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8678251

  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11139111

  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10972607

  http://www.annalsthoracicsurgery.org/article/0003-4975(90)90088-N/abstract

  
  

  
  
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  Joachim Boldt - Two More Retractions for WT's bloodless "expert"

  by OrphanCrow in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  from retraction watch:.

  when you have 94 retractions, what's two more?.

  attention joachim boldt: the 1990s are calling, and they want their papers back.the annals of thoracic surgery has retracted two papers from the early 1990s on which boldt was the first author – bringing the retraction tally for the disgraced german anesthesiologist to 96, by our count.

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  Lee: We need to publish an article on this fellow at AJWRB, don't you agree?

  Yes, I agree. I'll get working on it... :)

  
  
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  Joachim Boldt - Two More Retractions for WT's bloodless "expert"

  by OrphanCrow in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  from retraction watch:.

  when you have 94 retractions, what's two more?.

  attention joachim boldt: the 1990s are calling, and they want their papers back.the annals of thoracic surgery has retracted two papers from the early 1990s on which boldt was the first author – bringing the retraction tally for the disgraced german anesthesiologist to 96, by our count.

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  Scratchme, all good points.

  I want to address the first one you made:

  Money of course is the number one reason. The cost of getting, treating, processing, maintaining, transporting, delivering and administering blood is way higher than alternatives, not to mention tracing and tracking transfusion-related adverse events and incidents, both infectious and non-infectious, that affect blood donors and recipients.

  The Netherlands has been dealing with de-implementing patient blood management in their ortho practice for the last couple years. After years of following PBM guidelines in ortho surgical practice, a surgery that typically has high blood requirements, the Dutch concluded that blood transfusion alternatives were either way too costly (EPO) or were not effective in reducing the need for blood. You can read about that here:

  http://www.verekeskus.ee/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Marian_van_Kraaij.pdf

  Patient blood management (aka bloodless medicine) may be effective in some situations, but ortho practice in the Netherlands is not one of them.
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  Joachim Boldt - Two More Retractions for WT's bloodless "expert"

  by OrphanCrow in

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  2. medical

  from retraction watch:.

  when you have 94 retractions, what's two more?.

  attention joachim boldt: the 1990s are calling, and they want their papers back.the annals of thoracic surgery has retracted two papers from the early 1990s on which boldt was the first author – bringing the retraction tally for the disgraced german anesthesiologist to 96, by our count.

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  redpilltwice: It's just that I remember the warnings during field service not to be sucked into discussions with householders regarding blood. From my personal experience, it was discouraged.

  Of course it was discouraged. The Blood Taboo was more than just refusing blood - it was all about refusing to discuss it other than the pat answer: "It is what I believe. The Bible says so." Blood was/is an uncomfortable topic. And never, never, talk to the media about blood!!!

  And when it comes to actual, solid medical information, the regular JW just says: "Whatever the HLC says." Their ears are closed and the HLC are their voice.

  But hey, every informed soul counts, right?

  Absolutely. All it takes is one. Just one. One to hear and listen, to know about the WT's deceptive medical advice, and another one will live. And they will let their children live.
  
  

  
  
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  Joachim Boldt - Two More Retractions for WT's bloodless "expert"

  by OrphanCrow in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  from retraction watch:.

  when you have 94 retractions, what's two more?.

  attention joachim boldt: the 1990s are calling, and they want their papers back.the annals of thoracic surgery has retracted two papers from the early 1990s on which boldt was the first author – bringing the retraction tally for the disgraced german anesthesiologist to 96, by our count.

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  redpilltwice: Most JW's however would not bring up the blood issue in field circus unless they are triggered by a person that has critical questions. I hope in cases when dr. Boldt is refered to as an authority regarding bloodless surgery, this info has already reached that person/householder.

  The chances of blood being discussed with a householder are pretty slim.

  This material is most valuable for those people who have already been indoctrinated with "blood cult" thinking. I am thinking of exJWs who are still walking around with the WT's pseudo-science stuck in their brains. And of the active JWs who still want to desperately believe in the WT's medical advice.

  The WT's history of promoting and supporting quack science is lengthy and this recent exposure of one of the WT's "experts" on bloodless surgery can be added to the list of other medical frauds that the WT is noted for: radio active belts, the Abrams electrical box to just name a couple. Now we can add the WT's blood phobia to the list - headed up by Dr. Joachim Boldt, the great pretender.

  Once a person starts to unravel the deception around the WT's interpretation of Biblical doctrine, I think it is important to keep going and expose the ways that the WT has used deception in their medical doctrine as well.

  However, even though it is unlikely you would use this information at the door with JWs, this material could be valuable to exJWs who get into discussions with their JW families. The links I have posted at the beginning go to Retraction Watch and it would be difficult to argue that it is an apostate website. It is pretty clear that the WT has used a fraudulent researcher as one of their "experts" on bloodless surgery and that is something that is backed up all over the place on the internet from several credible sources.