Retracted: "Safety of cardiac surgery without blood transfusion: a retrospective study in Jehovah’s Witness patients"

OrphanCrow

I found a retracted medical study that is cited by the bloodless/blood management world.

I wonder when they will get around to recognizing the retraction in the blood management world. This study is still being used as a reference - the latest study that cited it was published in 2016.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2044.2009.06232.x/abstract

NOTICE OF RETRACTION The following article from Anaesthesia, ‘Safety of cardiac surgery without blood transfusion: a retrospective study in Jehovah’s Witness patients’, by El Azab SR, Vrakking R, Verhage [sic] G and Rosseel PMJ, published online in Wiley Online Library (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2044.2009.06232.x/full) on 17 March 2010 and in Volume 65, Number 4, pages 348-52, has been retracted by agreement between three of the named authors (R Vrakking, G Verhaegh and PMJ Rosseel), the Journal Editor-in-Chief, Steve Yentis, and Blackwell Publishing Ltd. The retraction has been agreed following confirmation by the Amphia Hospital Ethics Committee that the study did not have ethical approval as claimed. In addition, the article was written and submitted without the knowledge or consent of R Vrakking, G Verhaegh and PMJ Rosseel. It has not been possible to obtain a response from the corresponding author SR El Azab.

Citing articles: https://scholar.google.ca/scholar?um=1&ie=UTF-8&lr&cites=7899522481773395883

I posted this study to a website I follow - http://retractionwatch.com/

I am hoping it will come up on their radar and get mentioned by their writing and investigative staff.

I checked my university access across all medical fields and had all the same type of retraction notices to quite a number of articles, by a certain fraudulent doctor, highly revered by Watchtower in relation to blood management.

Medical corruption ... how low can you go.

Shame on the holy spirit overseeing the activities of Jehovah's Witnesses and the writings of the faithful and discreet slave ~~class~~.

keinlezard

Hello,

Have you got a listing of these articles ... or some more references ...

Thank ...

jwleaks

keinlezard: Have you got a listing of these articles ... or some more references ...

I will log into my access account on the weekend and post some of the retractions.

OrphanCrow

jwleaks: I checked my university access across all medical fields and had all the same type of retraction notices to quite a number of articles, by a certain fraudulent doctor, highly revered by Watchtower in relation to blood management.

Are you speaking about Joachim Boldt?

Joyzabel posted a thread for me about him a while back (when I was having "issues" with posting)

https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5664231412203520/wts-expert-on-blood

I thought I had posted more about Dr. Boldt's research here, but I must have missed doing so.

The substance that Boldt's research centered around was hydroxyethyl starch, used extensively by the bloodless/blood management world on JW patients. In fact, used so extensively that when the FDA put a warning on the use of it, the HLC (represented by their buddies in the SABM), petitioned the FDA to still allow them to use it - on JWs - for use in a study co-sponsored by the US defense department. For disaster readiness - trauma patients.

I have to do something right now...but I will dig up the material and post it here later. it concerns STORMACT, a committee formed right after 9/11. (can't find it on this forum...thought I had posted it here but maybe not...)

*I found it - on this thread here:

https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5700923452030976/watchtowers-medical-bible-hlc-handbook?page=1&size=10

Newly Enlightened

Thank you so much Orphan Crow for posting this. this cult has got to be exposed for the liars they are!!!

nonjwspouse

JW leaks those negs were by accident - stupid iPhone while in the sun, and bad eyesight= gotta be more careful !! I see Simon corrected. Thank you Simon

OrphanCrow

A bit more about why the study in the OP was retracted.

The study would not have passed an ethics board because the author, El Azab, did not get consent from the JW control group. How he set this study up was to mine data on historic cases of JW patients and then compare that fabricated 'control group' to another group of patients.

This is not ethical. The patients did not consent to their information being published. Even if their identifying information had been removed, ethical standards in research would be breached.

For more info on this, concerning a different case of retraction (not JW or blood related): http://retractionwatch.com/2016/06/30/patients-did-not-okay-publishing-brain-surgery-details/

I wonder how many more medical studies exist, in the journals to date and in the 'dead' archives...the studies not published, where JW patients have not given consent for their medical information to be used for research purposes...where their medical data has been mined in order to promote noblood alternative treatments. It wouldn't surprise me if this has happened many, many times

Vidiot

So, a medical puff piece ostensibly validating the JW stance on blood, and utilizing biased and less-than-ethical testing standards has been essentially disavowed by all three doctors who originally wrote it?

Now that's funny. :smirk:

OrphanCrow

vidiot: So, a medical puff piece ostensibly validating the JW stance on blood, and utilizing biased and less-than-ethical testing standards has been essentially disavowed by all three doctors who originally wrote it?

No.

The three doctors, who requested the retraction, did NOT originally write it. Of course they disavowed ownership...they didn't write it.

It was a fraudulent paper - authored by an Arab dude, SR El Azab. He stuck the names on his paper without permission. He also claimed that the research had ethical approval. It didn't.

This is an example of the kind of "evidence based research" that underpins the blood management industry. I suspect there is more research like this that has yet to be discovered as being fraudulent

Retracted: "Safety of cardiac surgery without blood transfusion: a retrospective study in Jehovah’s Witness patients"

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