Watchtower Falsifies
Blood DEATH RISK
 The article "Blood Transfusions Overrated?" in
the October 15, 1993 Watchtower magazine
(page 32 -- reproduced below) concludes that
"Any medical risk of refusing blood is probably
less than the risks involved in accepting blood
transfusions."

But the article cites no statistics to support
this claim -- no doubt because the Watchtower
Society knows it is false.

This same Watchtower
 article admits that
refusing transfusions
adds "0.5% to 1.5%
mortality to the
overall operative risk"
in major surgery.

That averages out to 1%
or 1 out of 100 JWs dying
for refusing blood. This
percentage seems small,
but applied to all the major
operations undergone by 5
million active Witnesses or
13 million Kingdom Hall
attenders, that 1% means
many, many deaths.
 (Of JW patients whose
hemoglobin level was between
6.1 and 8 g/dL, 33% died, and
below 6 g/dL 61.5% died, per
Carson [Lancet 1988; 1:727-9]
reports Dr. D. John Doyle at
http://doyle.ibme.utoronto.ca/)

How risky is taking
blood? --"one death for
every 13,000 bottles of
blood transfused" is the
only substantiated figure
cited on page 8 of the
Watchtower Society's 1990
booklet How Can Blood
Save Your Life?(page 8)
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October 15, 1993 Watchtower page 32
The Watchtower says 1% death rate for refusing blood is probably less than transfusion deaths

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