Nice catch
Awake no.3 praises Dr. Semmelweiss for discovering disease-causing germs
by Anders Andersen 13 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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LisaRose
Lots of JWs are taken in by medical quackery because it requires the same kind of thinking , so it's not surprising that the Watchtower published nonsense like this, just like they didn't believe in vaccines at one point and still do not accept blood transfusions.
The Watchtower teaches that mainstream religions are corrupt and that religious leaders are lying to you and keeping you from a better religion. They look down on any religious education, don't have trained clergy and believe only they have the answers.
Many who promote fringe alternative medicine believe mainstream medical is corrupt and that doctors and big pharmaceutical are deliberately lying to keep you sick and prevent you from finding better therapies. They look down on medical research, consult untrained or poorly practitioners who say they have all the answers.
In both cases there may be a kernel of truth to some of their thinking (big pharmaceutical does sometimes put profit ahead of patients, some religious leaders are corrupt) but they blow the issues out of proportion and blindly accept the alternative without questioning. In both cases people are fooled because they lack critical thinking skills, they accept these ideas because they intuitively feel right to them and they don't stop to question the faulty logic.
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Captain Schmideo2
"There is no right, there is no wrong, there is only popular opinion!" - Jeffery Goines, mental patient.
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LevelThePlayingField
That same Awake / Golden Age article said, "All germs in there normal state are harmless".
Who knew. Run like hell.