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The Mind Boggles!

the_great_she_elephant — Sun, 18 May 2014 03:43:38 GMT

This is just so wrong on every conceivable level. How could it possibly have been allowed to happen?

http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/how-two-jehovahs-witnesses-were-paid-millions-to-restrict-wa-blood-transfusions/story-fnhocxo3-1226921294173

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boris1gary — Sun, 18 May 2014 03:48:58 GMT

Boggles is one word, so does WA have an ICAC?

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katymatey* — Sun, 18 May 2014 04:10:38 GMT

I think the Labor party was in power at the end of 2007 when it was given the go ahead.

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boris1gary — Sun, 18 May 2014 04:21:45 GMT

Yes it was presented in 07, started just before 08 elections but only fully rolled out in 2011. Regardless of any of this the whole thing seems odd and full of holes not to mention dangerous health wise.

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katymatey* — Sun, 18 May 2014 04:38:15 GMT

As far as I am concerned no one except medical doctors should say how a patient is treated. All parties need to keep their noses out. As for the JW aspect, the mind does boggle.

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the_great_she_elephant — Sun, 18 May 2014 04:52:01 GMT

@katymatey* wrote:
I think the Labor party was in power at the end of 2007 when it was given the go ahead.

It's irrelevant which party was in power at the time. This wasn't intended to be a political propaganda thread. Nor did I intend it to be a denigration of Jehovah's Witnesses .I'm just gobsmacked that it could have happened. To pay those two men to formulate this programme is akin a paying two fundamentalist Christians from the Southern Bible Belt of the US to write a sex education syllabus for Government funded schools.

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lakeland27 — Sun, 18 May 2014 04:55:17 GMT

If those two were true to their own beliefs they wouldn't take the job in the first place. odd.

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the_great_she_elephant — Sun, 18 May 2014 05:05:29 GMT

@lakeland27 wrote:
If those two were true to their own beliefs they wouldn't take the job in the first place. odd.

LL the whole point of the programme was to "rationalise" the use of blood transfusions. Apparently there are drugs you can sometimes use instead (though the side effects can occasionally be lethal) and one or both of the men confirmed they had accepted travel and/or lecture fees from the drug compnies concerned.

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lakeland27 — Sun, 18 May 2014 05:07:58 GMT

I wonder who makes the product. i guess using it instead by passes the usual JW concerns

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joz*garage — Sun, 18 May 2014 05:27:40 GMT

@katymatey* wrote:
I think the Labor party was in power at the end of 2007 when it was given the go ahead.

hahahaha, think the OP over-looked that bit, just slightly, lmao

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cherry*135 — Sun, 18 May 2014 05:40:49 GMT

Mind boggling... no Thai boyfriends of staff involved at least.

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the_great_she_elephant — Sun, 18 May 2014 06:06:24 GMT

@joz*garage wrote:
@katymatey* wrote:
I think the Labor party was in power at the end of 2007 when it was given the go ahead.
hahahaha, think the OP over-looked that bit, just slightly, lmao

I'm sure no other thought would ever have crossed your mind, Joz..

Re: The Mind Boggles!

annies_fancy_dress — Mon, 19 May 2014 01:13:54 GMT

Absolutely boogles.

How can they restrict tranfusions without providing, or at least recommending, a safe alternative tranfusion product like seawater or coconut milk, both used in WW2 when blood was not available and both work better than other blood!