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The Watchtower organization often cites expert authorities to bolster its preferential perspectives. One such expert is Dr. J. Garrott Allen.
- In 1977 and 1972 Allen is quoted as an expert to offer an estimate of deaths related to blood transfusion.[1-2]
- In 1970 Allen is quoted to offer his expert estimate of infectious hepatitis cases related to blood transfusion.[3]
The Watchtower organization is familiar with the expertise and writing of Dr. J. Garrett Allen.
What Watchtower Does Not Tell its Readers
Dr. Allen gained his expertise standing on the shoulders of several of his peers, including one doctor who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine. Among other things, Dr. Allen performed extensive experimentation with blood and blood products as a means of parenteral nutrition. He found conclusively that plasma proteins were useful for intravenous administration of nutrition, and just as conclusively found that transfusion of red cells was worthless as IV nutrition.[4]
So the story ended there on the subject of attempting to feed patients with blood or blood products. It turned out that intravenous administration of products such as red cells did not offer nutrition to patients. On the other hand, it was learned that intravenous administration of products such as plasma proteins did offer nutrition to patients.[4]
Watchtower’s expert knew this and published these findings. But rather than share this good science with its readership, Watchtower instead chose to selectively quote Dr. Allen where it suited its preferential perspective, and where his scientific findings contradicted its perspective the organization over and over again failed to share the facts.
In the face of verified science the Watchtower organization continued teaching that transfusion of products like red cells was intravenous use of blood as food. It was a lie then and it remains a lie.
Marvin Shilmer
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References:
1. Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Question of Blood, published by Watchtower, 1977, p. 42.
2. Awake, published by Watchtower, July 8, 1972, p. 27.
3. Awake, published by Watchtower, April 22, 1970, p. 31.
4. Vinnars et al, History of Parenteral Nutrition, Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, Vol. 27, No. 3, 2003, pp. 225-231.
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