ILT and Birdy, the incongruity is so absurd, It is the subterfuge of the cuckoo who gets its brood established and nurtured in the nest at the expense of the nest builders. Perhaps that's just business folks!
Why on earth do the medical authorities in these affected countries permit Watchtower lunacy when they are responsible for the lives if their patients? JWs would be the last people to be consulted medically on the matter of blood, it does not gel with normal protocol. Life is far more important than dogma.
I assume that it is partly a matter of the wedge principle. The thin end was inserted by the Liaison Committees in response to satisfying the hospital’s need for guidelines on the JW no-blood stance. This engendered some respect for JWs and entrepreneurs followed up with a credible professional team with carefully checked documentation for medical acceptability. Indeed bloodless surgery does have benefits but overall the transfusion of blood has proved its worth for almost a century.
The individual I personally know or rather knew, involved in the schemes is most definitely not a clinically experienced medic but a successful business man. The Watchtower and the JWs have for a long time made millions of people uneasy about taking blood and it is easy to scare the ignorant. Surely the Australian medical authorities and other such are not so naive?
I know you have done so much valuable and welcome research on this (and I haven’t) but I am still looking for your definitive evidence of official Watchtower complicity and profiting from the promotion of the work of Farmer and Hofmann et al.