Wonder: it seems that Laura and Lorenz are alway starting something knew, waiting in the starting blocks.
The next contribution that the Reiblings made in 2006/7 was certainly another "starting block". Or, more accurately, it was probably "seed money" - to grow another sprout off the PBM tree.
That contribution - for the Medical Society for Blood Management, in Vienna Austria - grew a pretty big tree. Huge tree, in fact. It is this society - the MSBM - that allows the Reiblings to make the claim that they supported the medical research that is linked at their site. And, it grew into the society as the 'push' behind the European Commission publishing the two documents that are also linked there.
This will take a while to unpack.
First - what/who is the Medical Society for Blood Management?
That particular society - another "bloodless" one - didn't show up until around 2006/7. And, it seems to be a pretty obscure and exclusive society. It doesn't have the visibility of its predecessor - the Society for the Advancement of Blood Management (formed 2000/1) - and I had a difficult time chasing down the very few mentions of it online.
So far, from what I can put together, the MSBM was formed with individuals who also held the membership in the SABM - notably, Shannon Farmer and Axel Hofmann.
Both Farmer and Hofmann are Jehovah's Witnesses. (Farmer ascended the HLC ladder). At the time they would have received a 'contribution' from the Reibling foundation, they were working on government contracts in Australia to promote and implement the PBM program in all of Australia. Two JWs - in charge of an entire country's blood supply.*
*there is lots about that unlikely alliance online, including current practices in PBM in Australia
It appears like the MSBM was set up as a liaison between Shannon/Farmer...just another part of the web...the blood management web that the WTS started and the JWs are an active part of. This blood management society was set up in Austria - Hofmann's turf. Right about the time of the Australian PBM launch.
We know that the Hofmann is part of MSBM because this study, published in 2011, says this
Correspondence: Axel Hofmann, M.E., Medical Society for Blood Management, Schlossplatz 14, 2361 Laxenburg, Austria. Telephone:
43-664-3005092; Fax: 43-2627-47854; e-mail: [email protected] Received March 22, 2011;
We also know that Farmer is connected to the MSBM because the study (published 2017) that the Reibling page links to, says this:
Shannon L.Farmer reports personal fees from Thieme (Stuttgart, Germany)
and Elsevier Science USA and nonfinancial support from the
National Blood Authority (Australia), the Medical Society for Blood Management, and The Health Round Table, outside the
submitted work.
That successful alliance has led to this:
https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/sante/item-detail.cfm?item_id=57139
Axel and Shannon have put Reibling's seed money to good use. With a little help from their friends.
The friends that the WTS has so rigorously and religiously pursued. Those guys. The ones that the WTS/HLC has targeted to join their "bloodless cult"