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Durante aproximadamente una década, La Edad de Oro hizo campaña contra los utensilios de cocina de aluminio, promovió un aparato de diagnóstico que ya había sido desacreditado y atacó a la medicina organizada. Esta página expone qué publicó, de quién era la voz en cada caso, y qué publica hoy la organización sobre estos temas.
Última revisión 20 de septiembre de 2026
De quién es la voz, y por qué importa.La Edad de Oro era una revista de interés general. Buena parte de su material sobre salud procedía de colaboradores externos identificados con su nombre, y esta página pone la firma a la vista en cada elemento, porque el artículo de un colaborador y un editorial sin firma que dice «nosotros» no son lo mismo. La distinción importa aquí más que en ningún otro sitio: es el error que este mismo sitio cometió y corrigió públicamente. Véase el registro de correcciones.
La campaña contra el aluminio, de 1925 a 1935
En orden cronológico, con la firma de cada texto.
Declaración explícita · 9 de septiembre de 1925Verificado
En septiembre de 1925 La Edad de Oro dijo a sus lectores que 'Heavy cast aluminum cooking utensils are the best', en un artículo sobre alimentación firmado por C. E. Stewart y que llevaba la nota '[Broadcast from WBBR by the writer.]' — WBBR era la emisora de radio de la propia Sociedad Watch Tower. Source: The Golden Age, 9 de septiembre de 1925
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9 de septiembre de 1925 · pp.781-785 · C. E. Stewart · Woodworth, Hudgings & Martin (The Golden Age), Brooklyn, New York
“Heavy cast aluminum cooking utensils are the best. The ordinary sheet or pressed-out aluminum is not the best.”
A five-page dietary article signed 'By C. E. Stewart' and carrying, beneath the title on page 781, the note '[Broadcast from WBBR by the writer.]' — that is, from the Watch Tower Society's own radio station. It also advises skipping breakfast ('At breakfast is no time to break a fast'), warns that 'Beef eaters lay the foundation for tuberculosis, and pork eaters are inviting the dread disease of cancer', and lists foods to use and avoid.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for The Golden Age, The Right Foods
Nota de confianza.Read in the OCR text layer of the archive.org scan of the 1925 bound volumes on 19 September 2026. The article opens on the leaf mapped to printed page 781, which carries its title and the bracketed note '[Broadcast from WBBR by the writer.]', and the aluminium sentence falls on the leaf mapped to printed page 784; the running head on the neighbouring leaf reads 'SEPTEMBER 9, 1925'. Hyphenation introduced by the scanner's line breaks has been closed up in the quotation; no words have been changed.
Procedencia del escaneo.Internet Archive item 'magazines-the-golden-age-1925', which holds both bound volumes of 1925 — volume VI (to September) and volume VII (from October). The cover of this issue reads 'Vol. VI ... September 9, 1925'. Page numbers taken from the item's _djvu.xml leaf mapping joined to _page_numbers.json and cross-checked against the printed running heads.
Notes.This is the same magazine that from at least 1929 to 1935 campaigned against aluminium cooking utensils. The 1925 article was broadcast from WBBR, the Society's own station, which places it closer to the organisation's voice than a reprint would be.
Consultado. 19 de septiembre de 2026 · Identificador de la fuente.src-hlth-ga-1925-0909-right-foods
Declaración explícita · 20 de febrero de 1929Verificado
En el plazo de cuatro años la misma revista daba el consejo contrario: desde por lo menos febrero de 1929 La Edad de Oro hizo campaña contra los utensilios de cocina de aluminio, y dedicó su artículo principal del 20 de febrero de 1929 al doctor C. T. Betts, que escribió que el aluminio 'produces poisoning to the soil, poisoning to the vegetation, poisoning to the animals eating such vegetation, and poisoning to human beings consuming the drug'. Source: The Golden Age, 20 de febrero de 1929Source: The Golden Age, 9 de septiembre de 1925
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20 de febrero de 1929 · pp.323-326 · Dr. C. T. Betts · Woodworth, Knorr & Martin (The Golden Age), Brooklyn, New York
“It is apparent from the above various quotations and statements that aluminum, in either the organic or the inorganic form, produces poisoning to the soil, poisoning to the vegetation, poisoning to the animals eating such vegetation, and poisoning to human beings consuming the drug.”
The lead article of the issue, carried under the masthead 'Volume X ... Wednesday, February 20, 1929 ... Number 246' and headed by the text of Genesis 3:17. Its author was Charles T. Betts, a Toledo dentist who sold a book called Aluminum Poisoning; he was not a Bible Student officer. The article closes by linking aluminium to cancer, and is immediately followed by a reader's letter thanking the magazine for an earlier article, 'Aluminum Poison by Way of the Kitchen'.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for The Golden Age, Aluminum in Soil, Vegetation, Animals, Humans
Nota de confianza.Read in the OCR text layer of the archive.org scan on 19 September 2026; the passage is on the leaf mapped to printed page 326, whose running head reads '326', in the issue whose masthead reads 'Volume X ... Wednesday, February 20, 1929 ... Number 246'. Scanner hyphenation closed up. The scan's OCR renders 'organic' as 'organie' and this has been restored; no other word has been altered. The OCR renders the author's initials as both 'Q. T. Betts' and 'C. T. Betts'; elsewhere in the same volume he is 'Dr. Chas. T. Betts'.
Procedencia del escaneo.Internet Archive item 'golden-age-1929' (bound volumes X and XI, 1929), uploaded by [email protected] to the 'opensource' collection. Page numbers taken from the item's _djvu.xml leaf mapping joined to _page_numbers.json and cross-checked against the printed running heads and issue mastheads.
Notes.The reader's letter on the same page ('Interior Aluminum Plating Not So Good', by I. M. Moll) refers to an earlier Golden Age article, 'Aluminum Poison by Way of the Kitchen'. The 1926-1928 volumes of The Golden Age are not on archive.org, so the first article of the campaign could not be dated.
Consultado. 19 de septiembre de 2026 · Identificador de la fuente.src-hlth-ga-1929-0220-betts-aluminum-soil
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9 de septiembre de 1925 · pp.781-785 · C. E. Stewart · Woodworth, Hudgings & Martin (The Golden Age), Brooklyn, New York
“Heavy cast aluminum cooking utensils are the best. The ordinary sheet or pressed-out aluminum is not the best.”
A five-page dietary article signed 'By C. E. Stewart' and carrying, beneath the title on page 781, the note '[Broadcast from WBBR by the writer.]' — that is, from the Watch Tower Society's own radio station. It also advises skipping breakfast ('At breakfast is no time to break a fast'), warns that 'Beef eaters lay the foundation for tuberculosis, and pork eaters are inviting the dread disease of cancer', and lists foods to use and avoid.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for The Golden Age, The Right Foods
Nota de confianza.Read in the OCR text layer of the archive.org scan of the 1925 bound volumes on 19 September 2026. The article opens on the leaf mapped to printed page 781, which carries its title and the bracketed note '[Broadcast from WBBR by the writer.]', and the aluminium sentence falls on the leaf mapped to printed page 784; the running head on the neighbouring leaf reads 'SEPTEMBER 9, 1925'. Hyphenation introduced by the scanner's line breaks has been closed up in the quotation; no words have been changed.
Procedencia del escaneo.Internet Archive item 'magazines-the-golden-age-1925', which holds both bound volumes of 1925 — volume VI (to September) and volume VII (from October). The cover of this issue reads 'Vol. VI ... September 9, 1925'. Page numbers taken from the item's _djvu.xml leaf mapping joined to _page_numbers.json and cross-checked against the printed running heads.
Notes.This is the same magazine that from at least 1929 to 1935 campaigned against aluminium cooking utensils. The 1925 article was broadcast from WBBR, the Society's own station, which places it closer to the organisation's voice than a reprint would be.
Consultado. 19 de septiembre de 2026 · Identificador de la fuente.src-hlth-ga-1925-0909-right-foods
Declaración explícita · 17 de abril de 1929Verificado
La revista dedicó todo su artículo principal del 17 de abril de 1929 — diez páginas — a unas reglas dietéticas recopiladas por un dietista naturópata, W. E. Reynolds, de la Rocine School, que decían a los lectores que 'If you boil vegetables in aluminum ware you always produce a poison' y que la comida dejada en aluminio y recalentada podía producir un veneno 'often strong enough to cause serious illness and sometimes death'. Source: The Golden Age, 17 de abril de 1929
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17 de abril de 1929 · pp.451-460 · compiled by W. E. Reynolds, N.D. · Woodworth, Knorr & Martin (The Golden Age), Brooklyn, New York
“If you boil vegetables in aluminum ware you always produce a poison, in the opinion of the scientists and doctors just quoted, the name of the poison being determined by the kind of food you cook.”
The lead article of the issue, running from the masthead page to page 460. Its title carries an asterisk, and the footnote at the foot of the first column of page 451 reads: “*Applicable to all of the nineteen chemical types of mankind. Compiled by W. E. Reynolds, N.D., Dietician, Rocine School, 3007 Water Street, Corpus Christi, Texas.” Its opening paragraphs credit the teachings of V. G. Rocine and of Dr Ralph Shadduck. It lists more than twenty chemists and physicians said to be 'a unit upon the opinion that aluminum compounds when taken internally by man are poisonous', and states that food left standing in aluminium and reheated can produce a poison 'often strong enough to cause serious illness and sometimes death'.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for The Golden Age, Good Health Dietetic Rules
Nota de confianza.Read in the OCR text layer of the archive.org scan on 19 September 2026; the quoted sentence is on the leaf mapped to printed page 458. Page 451 carries the issue masthead 'Volume X … Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, April 17, 1929 … Number 250', the article title with its asterisk, and the attributing footnote, which was read on that leaf and sits at the foot of its first column. Scanner hyphenation closed up; no words changed.
Procedencia del escaneo.Internet Archive item 'golden-age-1929'; page numbers from the _djvu.xml leaf mapping joined to _page_numbers.json, cross-checked against the issue masthead 'Volume X ... April 17, 1929 ... Number 250'.
Notes.The article carries no by-line at its head; the attribution to W. E. Reynolds is printed as an asterisked footnote on page 451. It is therefore a compiled contribution from a naturopathic dietician, not an unsigned article in the magazine's own voice. An earlier version of this record described it as unsigned and as the magazine's own voice; that was wrong and was corrected on 19 September 2026.
Consultado. 19 de septiembre de 2026 · Identificador de la fuente.src-hlth-ga-1929-0417-dietetic-rules
3 de abril de 1929 · pp.436-437 · Dr. G. Schmidt · Woodworth, Knorr & Martin (The Golden Age), Brooklyn, New York
“In a recent retest of over a hundred cases of cancer, in various parts of the body, I found this aluminum poison at the point of cancer in every case.”
A signed contribution describing the testing of patients by the 'White B D C Vagal Reflex method' and reporting that 'from eighty to ninety percent of all my patients, both in acute and in chronic cases, show aluminum poisoning'. The same issue carried 'A Cook's Experience with Aluminum' and 'Results of a De-aluminized Diet'.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for The Golden Age, Some Unusual Sources and Results of Aluminum Poisoning
Nota de confianza.Read in the OCR text layer of the archive.org scan on 19 September 2026 on the leaves mapped to printed pages 436-437; the issue contents page (printed page 418) lists both article titles. Scanner hyphenation closed up.
Procedencia del escaneo.Internet Archive item 'golden-age-1929'; page numbers from the _djvu.xml leaf mapping joined to _page_numbers.json, cross-checked against the issue masthead 'Volume X ... April 3, 1929 ... Number 249'.
Notes.The contents page of this issue lists, under 'Home and Health', 'A Common Cold', 'How Diphtheria Antitoxin Is Made', 'A Cook's Experience with Aluminum', 'The Ehret System of Elimination', 'Some Unusual Sources and Results of Aluminum Poisoning' and 'Results of a De-aluminized Diet'.
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2 de abril de 1930 · pp.434-437 · M. Q. · Golden Age Publishing Company, Brooklyn, New York
“If the irritation of a “chemical ferment” (such as a compound of aluminum) can, by any possibility, be considered a cause of cancer, eliminate all aluminum utensils from your kitchen.”
An article signed only with initials which recounts three cases of breast and internal cancer said to have been cured by living on grape juice with a daily warm-water enema, and endorses Dr. Betts's theory that aluminium cookware is 'a prolific cause of cancer'.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for The Golden Age, A Cure for Cancer
Nota de confianza.Read in the OCR text layer of the archive.org scan on 19 September 2026 on the leaves mapped to printed pages 434-437. Scanner hyphenation closed up; no words changed.
Procedencia del escaneo.Internet Archive item '1930-1934TheGoldenAgeMagazine'; page numbers from the _djvu.xml leaf mapping joined to _page_numbers.json, cross-checked against the issue masthead of 2 April 1930.
Notes.The article also states that the author had 'never seen a hint regarding the grape juice or fruit juice cure' in medical journals, and attributes this to 'the mental invulnerability of the medical fraternity'.
Consultado. 19 de septiembre de 2026 · Identificador de la fuente.src-hlth-ga-1930-0402-cure-for-cancer
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17 de abril de 1929 · pp.451-460 · compiled by W. E. Reynolds, N.D. · Woodworth, Knorr & Martin (The Golden Age), Brooklyn, New York
“If you boil vegetables in aluminum ware you always produce a poison, in the opinion of the scientists and doctors just quoted, the name of the poison being determined by the kind of food you cook.”
The lead article of the issue, running from the masthead page to page 460. Its title carries an asterisk, and the footnote at the foot of the first column of page 451 reads: “*Applicable to all of the nineteen chemical types of mankind. Compiled by W. E. Reynolds, N.D., Dietician, Rocine School, 3007 Water Street, Corpus Christi, Texas.” Its opening paragraphs credit the teachings of V. G. Rocine and of Dr Ralph Shadduck. It lists more than twenty chemists and physicians said to be 'a unit upon the opinion that aluminum compounds when taken internally by man are poisonous', and states that food left standing in aluminium and reheated can produce a poison 'often strong enough to cause serious illness and sometimes death'.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for The Golden Age, Good Health Dietetic Rules
Nota de confianza.Read in the OCR text layer of the archive.org scan on 19 September 2026; the quoted sentence is on the leaf mapped to printed page 458. Page 451 carries the issue masthead 'Volume X … Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, April 17, 1929 … Number 250', the article title with its asterisk, and the attributing footnote, which was read on that leaf and sits at the foot of its first column. Scanner hyphenation closed up; no words changed.
Procedencia del escaneo.Internet Archive item 'golden-age-1929'; page numbers from the _djvu.xml leaf mapping joined to _page_numbers.json, cross-checked against the issue masthead 'Volume X ... April 17, 1929 ... Number 250'.
Notes.The article carries no by-line at its head; the attribution to W. E. Reynolds is printed as an asterisked footnote on page 451. It is therefore a compiled contribution from a naturopathic dietician, not an unsigned article in the magazine's own voice. An earlier version of this record described it as unsigned and as the magazine's own voice; that was wrong and was corrected on 19 September 2026.
Consultado. 19 de septiembre de 2026 · Identificador de la fuente.src-hlth-ga-1929-0417-dietetic-rules
Declaración explícita · 2 de abril de 1930Verificado
La campaña no se limitó a los artículos de colaboradores. El 2 de abril de 1930 un texto editorial sin firma, escrito con la voz de la propia revista, decía 'we are absolutely right in our stand on the use of aluminum cooking utensils', y en abril de 1935 un texto sin firma bajo el encabezamiento fijo 'Poisoning Department' decía que La Edad de Oro 'will not cease to warn those who are interested in their health that aluminum is injurious to the health in numerous and various ways'. Source: The Golden Age, 2 de abril de 1930Source: The Golden Age, 10 de abril de 1935
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2 de abril de 1930 · p.438 · Golden Age Publishing Company, Brooklyn, New York
“By this time every regular reader of The Golden Age knows that we are absolutely right in our stand on the use of aluminum cooking utensils and that The Scientific American, The Literary Digest, and most of the M.D.'s are dead wrong, and as immune to facts or to reason as the D.D.'s are on the “hell” question.”
An unsigned editorial item reproducing two United Press despatches from the Oregon Journal of January 1930 about food poisoning at The Dalles, Oregon, and mocking the state board of health officer who concluded that an aluminium roaster was not to blame.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for The Golden Age, The Only Explanation
Nota de confianza.Read in the OCR text layer of the archive.org scan on 19 September 2026 on the leaf mapped to printed page 438, within the issue whose masthead reads 2 April 1930. Scanner hyphenation closed up; the OCR of the opening words is partly damaged and reads '»i i Y THIS time', which the surrounding sense and the printed column show to be 'By this time'.
Procedencia del escaneo.Internet Archive item '1930-1934TheGoldenAgeMagazine' (a compilation of selected issues, 1930-1934), uploaded by [email protected] to the 'faithmagazines' collection and marked public domain. Page numbers from the item's _djvu.xml leaf mapping joined to _page_numbers.json, cross-checked against the issue masthead 'Volume XI ... Wednesday, April 2, 1930 ... Number 275'.
Notes.Written in the magazine's own voice ('we'), not a contributor's. The preceding page, 437, carries a companion item, 'Sacramento's Poisoning Bee'.
Consultado. 19 de septiembre de 2026 · Identificador de la fuente.src-hlth-ga-1930-0402-only-explanation
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10 de abril de 1935 · p.440 · Golden Age Publishing Company, Brooklyn, New York
“The Golden Age does not care what kind of cooking utensils you use. It isn't even concerned if you insist upon using aluminum of any kind. That is your privilege and responsibility. But it will not cease to warn those who are interested in their health that aluminum is injurious to the health in numerous and various ways. There is no question about this whatever.”
An unsigned item under the standing head 'Poisoning Department'. It was written in answer to a notice in Scientific American that the United States Federal Trade Commission had obtained a stipulation from a cookware seller to stop claiming that aluminium utensils cause cancer; the Golden Age reproduces that notice and rejects it.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for The Golden Age, Not Selling Cooking Utensils
Nota de confianza.Read in the OCR text layer of the archive.org scan on 19 September 2026 on the leaf mapped to printed page 440. Scanner hyphenation closed up; no words changed.
Procedencia del escaneo.Internet Archive item '1935TheGoldenAgeMagazine', uploaded by [email protected] to the 'faithmagazines' collection and marked public domain. Page number from the item's _djvu.xml leaf mapping joined to _page_numbers.json, cross-checked against the issue masthead 'Volume XVI ... Wednesday, April 10, 1935 ... Number 406' and the running heads on neighbouring leaves.
Notes.The facing page (439) carries reader items headed 'How About It?' and 'Thumbs Down on Aluminum at Fresno'. The same 1935 volume carries further aluminium items on pages 341-343 (27 February 1935) and an article by Betts on diphtheria immunisation on pages 793-795 (11 September 1935).
Consultado. 19 de septiembre de 2026 · Identificador de la fuente.src-hlth-ga-1935-0410-not-selling-utensils
Declaración explícita · 2 de abril de 1930Verificado
El 2 de abril de 1930 un texto editorial sin firma declaró que 'every regular reader of The Golden Age knows that we are absolutely right in our stand on the use of aluminum cooking utensils and that The Scientific American, The Literary Digest, and most of the M.D.'s are dead wrong'. Source: The Golden Age, 2 de abril de 1930
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2 de abril de 1930 · p.438 · Golden Age Publishing Company, Brooklyn, New York
“By this time every regular reader of The Golden Age knows that we are absolutely right in our stand on the use of aluminum cooking utensils and that The Scientific American, The Literary Digest, and most of the M.D.'s are dead wrong, and as immune to facts or to reason as the D.D.'s are on the “hell” question.”
An unsigned editorial item reproducing two United Press despatches from the Oregon Journal of January 1930 about food poisoning at The Dalles, Oregon, and mocking the state board of health officer who concluded that an aluminium roaster was not to blame.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for The Golden Age, The Only Explanation
Nota de confianza.Read in the OCR text layer of the archive.org scan on 19 September 2026 on the leaf mapped to printed page 438, within the issue whose masthead reads 2 April 1930. Scanner hyphenation closed up; the OCR of the opening words is partly damaged and reads '»i i Y THIS time', which the surrounding sense and the printed column show to be 'By this time'.
Procedencia del escaneo.Internet Archive item '1930-1934TheGoldenAgeMagazine' (a compilation of selected issues, 1930-1934), uploaded by [email protected] to the 'faithmagazines' collection and marked public domain. Page numbers from the item's _djvu.xml leaf mapping joined to _page_numbers.json, cross-checked against the issue masthead 'Volume XI ... Wednesday, April 2, 1930 ... Number 275'.
Notes.Written in the magazine's own voice ('we'), not a contributor's. The preceding page, 437, carries a companion item, 'Sacramento's Poisoning Bee'.
Consultado. 19 de septiembre de 2026 · Identificador de la fuente.src-hlth-ga-1930-0402-only-explanation
Declaración explícita · 10 de abril de 1935Verificado
La campaña seguía en marcha en abril de 1935, cuando la revista respondió a la noticia de que un vendedor de utensilios de cocina se había comprometido, en virtud de una estipulación de la Comisión Federal de Comercio de los Estados Unidos, a dejar de afirmar que los utensilios de aluminio causan cáncer, diciendo que la revista 'will not cease to warn those who are interested in their health that aluminum is injurious to the health in numerous and various ways. There is no question about this whatever.' Source: The Golden Age, 10 de abril de 1935
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10 de abril de 1935 · p.440 · Golden Age Publishing Company, Brooklyn, New York
“The Golden Age does not care what kind of cooking utensils you use. It isn't even concerned if you insist upon using aluminum of any kind. That is your privilege and responsibility. But it will not cease to warn those who are interested in their health that aluminum is injurious to the health in numerous and various ways. There is no question about this whatever.”
An unsigned item under the standing head 'Poisoning Department'. It was written in answer to a notice in Scientific American that the United States Federal Trade Commission had obtained a stipulation from a cookware seller to stop claiming that aluminium utensils cause cancer; the Golden Age reproduces that notice and rejects it.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for The Golden Age, Not Selling Cooking Utensils
Nota de confianza.Read in the OCR text layer of the archive.org scan on 19 September 2026 on the leaf mapped to printed page 440. Scanner hyphenation closed up; no words changed.
Procedencia del escaneo.Internet Archive item '1935TheGoldenAgeMagazine', uploaded by [email protected] to the 'faithmagazines' collection and marked public domain. Page number from the item's _djvu.xml leaf mapping joined to _page_numbers.json, cross-checked against the issue masthead 'Volume XVI ... Wednesday, April 10, 1935 ... Number 406' and the running heads on neighbouring leaves.
Notes.The facing page (439) carries reader items headed 'How About It?' and 'Thumbs Down on Aluminum at Fresno'. The same 1935 volume carries further aluminium items on pages 341-343 (27 February 1935) and an article by Betts on diphtheria immunisation on pages 793-795 (11 September 1935).
Consultado. 19 de septiembre de 2026 · Identificador de la fuente.src-hlth-ga-1935-0410-not-selling-utensils
20 de febrero de 1929 · pp.323-326 · Dr. C. T. Betts · Woodworth, Knorr & Martin (The Golden Age), Brooklyn, New York
“It is apparent from the above various quotations and statements that aluminum, in either the organic or the inorganic form, produces poisoning to the soil, poisoning to the vegetation, poisoning to the animals eating such vegetation, and poisoning to human beings consuming the drug.”
The lead article of the issue, carried under the masthead 'Volume X ... Wednesday, February 20, 1929 ... Number 246' and headed by the text of Genesis 3:17. Its author was Charles T. Betts, a Toledo dentist who sold a book called Aluminum Poisoning; he was not a Bible Student officer. The article closes by linking aluminium to cancer, and is immediately followed by a reader's letter thanking the magazine for an earlier article, 'Aluminum Poison by Way of the Kitchen'.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for The Golden Age, Aluminum in Soil, Vegetation, Animals, Humans
Nota de confianza.Read in the OCR text layer of the archive.org scan on 19 September 2026; the passage is on the leaf mapped to printed page 326, whose running head reads '326', in the issue whose masthead reads 'Volume X ... Wednesday, February 20, 1929 ... Number 246'. Scanner hyphenation closed up. The scan's OCR renders 'organic' as 'organie' and this has been restored; no other word has been altered. The OCR renders the author's initials as both 'Q. T. Betts' and 'C. T. Betts'; elsewhere in the same volume he is 'Dr. Chas. T. Betts'.
Procedencia del escaneo.Internet Archive item 'golden-age-1929' (bound volumes X and XI, 1929), uploaded by [email protected] to the 'opensource' collection. Page numbers taken from the item's _djvu.xml leaf mapping joined to _page_numbers.json and cross-checked against the printed running heads and issue mastheads.
Notes.The reader's letter on the same page ('Interior Aluminum Plating Not So Good', by I. M. Moll) refers to an earlier Golden Age article, 'Aluminum Poison by Way of the Kitchen'. The 1926-1928 volumes of The Golden Age are not on archive.org, so the first article of the campaign could not be dated.
Consultado. 19 de septiembre de 2026 · Identificador de la fuente.src-hlth-ga-1929-0220-betts-aluminum-soil
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3 de abril de 1929 · pp.436-437 · Dr. G. Schmidt · Woodworth, Knorr & Martin (The Golden Age), Brooklyn, New York
“In a recent retest of over a hundred cases of cancer, in various parts of the body, I found this aluminum poison at the point of cancer in every case.”
A signed contribution describing the testing of patients by the 'White B D C Vagal Reflex method' and reporting that 'from eighty to ninety percent of all my patients, both in acute and in chronic cases, show aluminum poisoning'. The same issue carried 'A Cook's Experience with Aluminum' and 'Results of a De-aluminized Diet'.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for The Golden Age, Some Unusual Sources and Results of Aluminum Poisoning
Nota de confianza.Read in the OCR text layer of the archive.org scan on 19 September 2026 on the leaves mapped to printed pages 436-437; the issue contents page (printed page 418) lists both article titles. Scanner hyphenation closed up.
Procedencia del escaneo.Internet Archive item 'golden-age-1929'; page numbers from the _djvu.xml leaf mapping joined to _page_numbers.json, cross-checked against the issue masthead 'Volume X ... April 3, 1929 ... Number 249'.
Notes.The contents page of this issue lists, under 'Home and Health', 'A Common Cold', 'How Diphtheria Antitoxin Is Made', 'A Cook's Experience with Aluminum', 'The Ehret System of Elimination', 'Some Unusual Sources and Results of Aluminum Poisoning' and 'Results of a De-aluminized Diet'.
Consultado. 19 de septiembre de 2026 · Identificador de la fuente.src-hlth-ga-1929-0403-schmidt-aluminum
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17 de abril de 1929 · pp.451-460 · compiled by W. E. Reynolds, N.D. · Woodworth, Knorr & Martin (The Golden Age), Brooklyn, New York
“If you boil vegetables in aluminum ware you always produce a poison, in the opinion of the scientists and doctors just quoted, the name of the poison being determined by the kind of food you cook.”
The lead article of the issue, running from the masthead page to page 460. Its title carries an asterisk, and the footnote at the foot of the first column of page 451 reads: “*Applicable to all of the nineteen chemical types of mankind. Compiled by W. E. Reynolds, N.D., Dietician, Rocine School, 3007 Water Street, Corpus Christi, Texas.” Its opening paragraphs credit the teachings of V. G. Rocine and of Dr Ralph Shadduck. It lists more than twenty chemists and physicians said to be 'a unit upon the opinion that aluminum compounds when taken internally by man are poisonous', and states that food left standing in aluminium and reheated can produce a poison 'often strong enough to cause serious illness and sometimes death'.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for The Golden Age, Good Health Dietetic Rules
Nota de confianza.Read in the OCR text layer of the archive.org scan on 19 September 2026; the quoted sentence is on the leaf mapped to printed page 458. Page 451 carries the issue masthead 'Volume X … Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, April 17, 1929 … Number 250', the article title with its asterisk, and the attributing footnote, which was read on that leaf and sits at the foot of its first column. Scanner hyphenation closed up; no words changed.
Procedencia del escaneo.Internet Archive item 'golden-age-1929'; page numbers from the _djvu.xml leaf mapping joined to _page_numbers.json, cross-checked against the issue masthead 'Volume X ... April 17, 1929 ... Number 250'.
Notes.The article carries no by-line at its head; the attribution to W. E. Reynolds is printed as an asterisked footnote on page 451. It is therefore a compiled contribution from a naturopathic dietician, not an unsigned article in the magazine's own voice. An earlier version of this record described it as unsigned and as the magazine's own voice; that was wrong and was corrected on 19 September 2026.
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21 de agosto de 1929 · pp.754-756 · Dr. C. T. Betts · Woodworth, Knorr & Martin (The Golden Age), Brooklyn, New York
“The American Medical Association at Chicago, Ill., was next mentioned. Then the United States Public Health Service was included in this investigation. The London Lancet also issued statements giving aluminum a clean bill of health.”
A rebuttal of an article by Albert A. Hopkins in Scientific American of March 1929 which had found aluminium cookware harmless. Betts lists the bodies Hopkins relied on — the manufacturer's works at New Kensington, the American Medical Association, the United States Public Health Service, The Lancet and the Mellon Institute — and argues that they should have been ignored in favour of his own book.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for The Golden Age, Do Aluminum Kitchen Utensils Have “A Clean Bill of Health”?
Nota de confianza.Read in the OCR text layer of the archive.org scan on 19 September 2026 on the leaves mapped to printed pages 754-755; the issue's cover page (printed page 737) lists 'ALUMINUM POISONING' among the contents. Scanner hyphenation closed up.
Procedencia del escaneo.Internet Archive item 'golden-age-1929'; page numbers from the _djvu.xml leaf mapping joined to _page_numbers.json, cross-checked against the issue masthead 'Volume X ... August 21, 1929 ... Number 259'.
Notes.This article is direct evidence that the magazine knew the position of the AMA, the United States Public Health Service and The Lancet on aluminium cookware in 1929 and printed a rejection of it. It also reproduces a refusal letter from the editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association dated 19 June 1928.
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2 de abril de 1930 · p.438 · Golden Age Publishing Company, Brooklyn, New York
“By this time every regular reader of The Golden Age knows that we are absolutely right in our stand on the use of aluminum cooking utensils and that The Scientific American, The Literary Digest, and most of the M.D.'s are dead wrong, and as immune to facts or to reason as the D.D.'s are on the “hell” question.”
An unsigned editorial item reproducing two United Press despatches from the Oregon Journal of January 1930 about food poisoning at The Dalles, Oregon, and mocking the state board of health officer who concluded that an aluminium roaster was not to blame.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for The Golden Age, The Only Explanation
Nota de confianza.Read in the OCR text layer of the archive.org scan on 19 September 2026 on the leaf mapped to printed page 438, within the issue whose masthead reads 2 April 1930. Scanner hyphenation closed up; the OCR of the opening words is partly damaged and reads '»i i Y THIS time', which the surrounding sense and the printed column show to be 'By this time'.
Procedencia del escaneo.Internet Archive item '1930-1934TheGoldenAgeMagazine' (a compilation of selected issues, 1930-1934), uploaded by [email protected] to the 'faithmagazines' collection and marked public domain. Page numbers from the item's _djvu.xml leaf mapping joined to _page_numbers.json, cross-checked against the issue masthead 'Volume XI ... Wednesday, April 2, 1930 ... Number 275'.
Notes.Written in the magazine's own voice ('we'), not a contributor's. The preceding page, 437, carries a companion item, 'Sacramento's Poisoning Bee'.
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13 de abril de 1932 · p.442 · Dr. Chas. T. Betts · Golden Age Publishing Company, Brooklyn, New York
“Manufacturers of aluminum kitchenware continue to advertise that those opposed to the manufacture of aluminum cooking utensils are wrong, in spite of the fact that the reports show that such ware is used previous to 99 percent of all group poisoning cases.”
Betts recounts writing to a family in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, whose New Year's Day illness had been reported in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and printing their reply, which mentions soup carried in an aluminium pail.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for The Golden Age, Truth Sometimes Comes to the Surface Quickly
Nota de confianza.Read in the OCR text layer of the archive.org scan on 19 September 2026 on the leaf mapped to printed page 442, in the issue whose masthead reads 13 April 1932. Scanner hyphenation closed up.
Procedencia del escaneo.Internet Archive item '1930-1934TheGoldenAgeMagazine'; page number from the _djvu.xml leaf mapping joined to _page_numbers.json, cross-checked against the issue masthead 'Volume XIII ... Wednesday, April 13, 1932 ... Number 323'.
Notes.Establishes that Betts was still writing for the magazine on this subject in 1932, six and a half years after the magazine's December 1925 undertaking to restrict what it published.
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10 de abril de 1935 · p.440 · Golden Age Publishing Company, Brooklyn, New York
“The Golden Age does not care what kind of cooking utensils you use. It isn't even concerned if you insist upon using aluminum of any kind. That is your privilege and responsibility. But it will not cease to warn those who are interested in their health that aluminum is injurious to the health in numerous and various ways. There is no question about this whatever.”
An unsigned item under the standing head 'Poisoning Department'. It was written in answer to a notice in Scientific American that the United States Federal Trade Commission had obtained a stipulation from a cookware seller to stop claiming that aluminium utensils cause cancer; the Golden Age reproduces that notice and rejects it.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for The Golden Age, Not Selling Cooking Utensils
Nota de confianza.Read in the OCR text layer of the archive.org scan on 19 September 2026 on the leaf mapped to printed page 440. Scanner hyphenation closed up; no words changed.
Procedencia del escaneo.Internet Archive item '1935TheGoldenAgeMagazine', uploaded by [email protected] to the 'faithmagazines' collection and marked public domain. Page number from the item's _djvu.xml leaf mapping joined to _page_numbers.json, cross-checked against the issue masthead 'Volume XVI ... Wednesday, April 10, 1935 ... Number 406' and the running heads on neighbouring leaves.
Notes.The facing page (439) carries reader items headed 'How About It?' and 'Thumbs Down on Aluminum at Fresno'. The same 1935 volume carries further aluminium items on pages 341-343 (27 February 1935) and an article by Betts on diphtheria immunisation on pages 793-795 (11 September 1935).
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15 de enero de 1936 · pp.227-228 · Golden Age Publishing Company, Brooklyn, New York
“In the past it has published numerous health articles from various sources where the writers seemed to know what they were talking about. These articles have not always been consistent with one another; which is not to be wondered at, because no two health experts agree.”
The magazine's own summing-up of its health content, opening the issue. It goes on: 'This is about all The Golden Age knows on the subject of health. It has no ambition to be known as a health magazine ... The Golden Age claims no monopoly of wisdom on the subject.' It also says 'Surgery is sometimes essential, but before submitting to the knife try the prescriptions above given', repeats that Jesus's fish 'certainly was not fried in an aluminum frying pan', and calls it 'nonsense to say that mankind must have 1,200 kinds of poison scratched into his arm to keep him well'.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for The Golden Age, Some Ideas on Health
Nota de confianza.Read in the OCR text layer of the archive.org scan on 19 September 2026 on the leaves mapped to printed pages 226-228; the contents page (printed page 226) lists 'Some Ideas on Health ... 227', the leaf mapped to page 228 carries the running head '228 The Golden Age Brooklyn, N.Y.' and the leaves mapped to pages 229 and 231 carry running heads reading 'January 15, 1936'. The two-column OCR on page 227 is badly interleaved. The quoted sentence, and the phrases 'no ambition to be known as a health magazine', 'claims no monopoly of wisdom on the subject' and 'Surgery is sometimes essential, but before submitting to the knife try the prescriptions above given', were each read as an unbroken run of text. The sentence about 1,200 kinds of poison was not: it survives only as two overlapping partial renderings of the same interleaved column, which agree with each other, and is recorded on that basis.
Procedencia del escaneo.Internet Archive item '1936-1937TheGoldenAgeMagazine', uploaded by [email protected] to the 'faithmagazines' collection and marked public domain. Page numbers from the item's _djvu.xml leaf mapping joined to _page_numbers.json, cross-checked against the running heads reading 'January 15, 1936' on the following leaves.
Notes.The nearest thing found to a retrospective statement on the magazine's health content. It withdraws no specific claim, names no error and does not mention the aluminium campaign; it says only that the articles came from various sources and were not always consistent.
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Declaración explícita · 21 de agosto de 1929Verificado
La revista conocía el consenso médico contrario y lo rechazó: en agosto de 1929 publicó una réplica en la que señalaba que la American Medical Association, el Servicio de Salud Pública de los Estados Unidos y The Lancet habían dado a los utensilios de cocina de aluminio 'a clean bill of health'. Source: The Golden Age, 21 de agosto de 1929
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21 de agosto de 1929 · pp.754-756 · Dr. C. T. Betts · Woodworth, Knorr & Martin (The Golden Age), Brooklyn, New York
“The American Medical Association at Chicago, Ill., was next mentioned. Then the United States Public Health Service was included in this investigation. The London Lancet also issued statements giving aluminum a clean bill of health.”
A rebuttal of an article by Albert A. Hopkins in Scientific American of March 1929 which had found aluminium cookware harmless. Betts lists the bodies Hopkins relied on — the manufacturer's works at New Kensington, the American Medical Association, the United States Public Health Service, The Lancet and the Mellon Institute — and argues that they should have been ignored in favour of his own book.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for The Golden Age, Do Aluminum Kitchen Utensils Have “A Clean Bill of Health”?
Nota de confianza.Read in the OCR text layer of the archive.org scan on 19 September 2026 on the leaves mapped to printed pages 754-755; the issue's cover page (printed page 737) lists 'ALUMINUM POISONING' among the contents. Scanner hyphenation closed up.
Procedencia del escaneo.Internet Archive item 'golden-age-1929'; page numbers from the _djvu.xml leaf mapping joined to _page_numbers.json, cross-checked against the issue masthead 'Volume X ... August 21, 1929 ... Number 259'.
Notes.This article is direct evidence that the magazine knew the position of the AMA, the United States Public Health Service and The Lancet on aluminium cookware in 1929 and printed a rejection of it. It also reproduces a refusal letter from the editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association dated 19 June 1928.
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No se ha encontrado ninguna retractación de la campaña contra el aluminio. La declaración más próxima que se ha localizado es un balance del 15 de enero de 1936 en el que la revista solo dijo que había publicado artículos de salud 'from various sources' que 'have not always been consistent with one another', que tenía 'no ambition to be known as a health magazine' y que afirmaba tener 'no monopoly of wisdom on the subject'. Source: The Golden Age, 15 de enero de 1936
La posición de la organización o su explicación posterior: El artículo de 1936 no retiró nada concreto. En el mismo texto la revista repitió que el pescado de Jesús 'certainly was not fried in an aluminum frying pan' y que era 'nonsense to say that mankind must have 1,200 kinds of poison scratched into his arm to keep him well'.
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15 de enero de 1936 · pp.227-228 · Golden Age Publishing Company, Brooklyn, New York
“In the past it has published numerous health articles from various sources where the writers seemed to know what they were talking about. These articles have not always been consistent with one another; which is not to be wondered at, because no two health experts agree.”
The magazine's own summing-up of its health content, opening the issue. It goes on: 'This is about all The Golden Age knows on the subject of health. It has no ambition to be known as a health magazine ... The Golden Age claims no monopoly of wisdom on the subject.' It also says 'Surgery is sometimes essential, but before submitting to the knife try the prescriptions above given', repeats that Jesus's fish 'certainly was not fried in an aluminum frying pan', and calls it 'nonsense to say that mankind must have 1,200 kinds of poison scratched into his arm to keep him well'.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for The Golden Age, Some Ideas on Health
Nota de confianza.Read in the OCR text layer of the archive.org scan on 19 September 2026 on the leaves mapped to printed pages 226-228; the contents page (printed page 226) lists 'Some Ideas on Health ... 227', the leaf mapped to page 228 carries the running head '228 The Golden Age Brooklyn, N.Y.' and the leaves mapped to pages 229 and 231 carry running heads reading 'January 15, 1936'. The two-column OCR on page 227 is badly interleaved. The quoted sentence, and the phrases 'no ambition to be known as a health magazine', 'claims no monopoly of wisdom on the subject' and 'Surgery is sometimes essential, but before submitting to the knife try the prescriptions above given', were each read as an unbroken run of text. The sentence about 1,200 kinds of poison was not: it survives only as two overlapping partial renderings of the same interleaved column, which agree with each other, and is recorded on that basis.
Procedencia del escaneo.Internet Archive item '1936-1937TheGoldenAgeMagazine', uploaded by [email protected] to the 'faithmagazines' collection and marked public domain. Page numbers from the item's _djvu.xml leaf mapping joined to _page_numbers.json, cross-checked against the running heads reading 'January 15, 1936' on the following leaves.
Notes.The nearest thing found to a retrospective statement on the magazine's health content. It withdraws no specific claim, names no error and does not mention the aluminium campaign; it says only that the articles came from various sources and were not always consistent.
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En aras de la exhaustividad, y porque este sitio no exagera: los utensilios de cocina de aluminio sí aportan una parte del aluminio que se ingiere con la dieta. No es eso lo que afirmaba la revista, y la afirmación que sigue expone la diferencia.
Los utensilios de cocina de aluminio sí aportan una parte del aluminio de la dieta — la Autoridad Europea de Seguridad Alimentaria incluye entre las fuentes 'food contact materials such as pots, pans and foil', junto con su presencia natural y los aditivos alimentarios — y señala como principales contribuyentes de la dieta los cereales y los productos a base de cereales, las verduras y las bebidas, no los utensilios de cocina. Nada de lo localizado en esta investigación respalda las afirmaciones de la revista de que cocinar en aluminio cause cáncer o intoxicación aguda. Source: European Food Safety Authority, 15 de julio de 2008Source: The Golden Age, 10 de abril de 1935
15 de julio de 2008 · European Food Safety Authority
“Aluminium in foods originates from its natural occurrence, from the use of food additives containing aluminium and from the presence of aluminium in food contact materials such as pots, pans and foil.”
EFSA's announcement of a tolerable weekly intake of 1 milligram of aluminium per kilogram of body weight. It identifies cereals and cereal products, vegetables and beverages as the main dietary contributors, and says intake may exceed the tolerable weekly intake in a significant part of the European population.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for European Food Safety Authority, EFSA advises on the safety of aluminium in food
Nota de confianza.Page opened on 19 September 2026 and the quoted sentence, the tolerable weekly intake figure and the publication date confirmed.
Notes.Included for proportion, not as a rebuttal in kind. EFSA addresses total dietary aluminium and does not attribute cancer, 'trembles' or food poisoning to cooking utensils, which were the Golden Age's claims.
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10 de abril de 1935 · p.440 · Golden Age Publishing Company, Brooklyn, New York
“The Golden Age does not care what kind of cooking utensils you use. It isn't even concerned if you insist upon using aluminum of any kind. That is your privilege and responsibility. But it will not cease to warn those who are interested in their health that aluminum is injurious to the health in numerous and various ways. There is no question about this whatever.”
An unsigned item under the standing head 'Poisoning Department'. It was written in answer to a notice in Scientific American that the United States Federal Trade Commission had obtained a stipulation from a cookware seller to stop claiming that aluminium utensils cause cancer; the Golden Age reproduces that notice and rejects it.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for The Golden Age, Not Selling Cooking Utensils
Nota de confianza.Read in the OCR text layer of the archive.org scan on 19 September 2026 on the leaf mapped to printed page 440. Scanner hyphenation closed up; no words changed.
Procedencia del escaneo.Internet Archive item '1935TheGoldenAgeMagazine', uploaded by [email protected] to the 'faithmagazines' collection and marked public domain. Page number from the item's _djvu.xml leaf mapping joined to _page_numbers.json, cross-checked against the issue masthead 'Volume XVI ... Wednesday, April 10, 1935 ... Number 406' and the running heads on neighbouring leaves.
Notes.The facing page (439) carries reader items headed 'How About It?' and 'Thumbs Down on Aluminum at Fresno'. The same 1935 volume carries further aluminium items on pages 341-343 (27 February 1935) and an article by Betts on diphtheria immunisation on pages 793-795 (11 September 1935).
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Declaración explícita · 22 de abril de 1925Verificado
En abril de 1925 La Edad de Oro dedicó su artículo principal a un aparato llamado Electronic Radio Biola, del que se decía que diagnosticaba y trataba enfermedades automáticamente mediante vibración por radio, con un diagnóstico que 'is 100 percent correct', y publicó encima una nota del editor que decía que la revista 'has fullest confidence in any representations that may be made by Doctor Gamble'. Source: The Golden Age, 22 de abril de 1925
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22 de abril de 1925 · pp.451-455 · Dr. R. A. Gamble, Dean of the Norfolk Electronic Institute · Woodworth, Hudgings & Martin (The Golden Age), Brooklyn, New York
“[The Golden Age has fullest confidence in any representations that may be made by Doctor Gamble. He is well known to many of our readers and we are sure they will read this important article with great interest.—Editor.]”
The editor's bracketed note at the head of the issue's lead article, printed above a by-line reading 'By Dr. R. A. Gamble, Dean of the Norfolk Electronic Institute.' The article promotes the 'Electronic Radio Biola', a device the author says he invented: 'The Biola automatically diagnoses and treats diseases by the use of the electronic vibrations. The diagnosis is 100 percent correct'. The author praises the “famous Abrams' Electronic system” on which the device is built, and calls it a discovery 'which I am exclusively announcing in The Golden Age prior to its general publication elsewhere'.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for The Golden Age, Automatic Electronic Diagnosis
Nota de confianza.Read in the OCR text layer of the archive.org scan on 19 September 2026 on the leaves mapped to printed pages 451-455; the masthead is on the same leaf as the article's opening. Scanner hyphenation closed up; no words changed.
Procedencia del escaneo.Internet Archive item 'magazines-the-golden-age-1925'; page numbers from the _djvu.xml leaf mapping joined to _page_numbers.json, cross-checked against the issue masthead 'Volume VI ... Wednesday, April 22, 1925 ... Number 146'.
Notes.The article's own text says of the Biola that 'its price brings it within the reach of every family, even those in the poorest circumstances'. The article is a signed contribution; the bracketed endorsement printed above it is the magazine's own.
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septiembre de 1924 · p.158 · Austin C. Lescarboura · Munn & Co.
“The Electronic Reactions of Abrams and Electronic Medicine in General Found Utterly Worthless”
The concluding article of Scientific American's investigation of the Electronic Reactions of Abrams, published in volume 131, number 3 (September 1924). The words quoted are the article's own subtitle, quoted in full; the body of the article was not read.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for Scientific American, Our Abrams Verdict
Nota de confianza.The article's landing page on scientificamerican.com was opened on 19 September 2026 and confirms the title, the author, the issue (vol. 131 no. 3, September 1924), the page (158) and the subtitle quoted here in full. The full text is behind the publisher's archive paywall and was not read, so the verdict is recorded from the subtitle and from the Quackwatch account rather than from the body of the article. An earlier version of this record quoted only the words 'Found Utterly Worthless', which is a fragment of the middle of that subtitle.
1 de febrero de 2002 · William T. Jarvis, PhD · National Council Against Health Fraud / Quackwatch
“Analyzed in the cold light of scientific knowledge, the entire Abrams matter is the height of absurdity.”
Jarvis's account of the joint Scientific American and American Medical Association investigation of 1923-24, which he says ran about ten months and cost some $30,000. The words quoted are the first sentence of the investigating panel's verdict as he reproduces it; the verdict continues: 'The so-called Electronic Reactions of Abrams do not exist—at least objectively … At best it is all an illusion. At worst, it is a colossal fraud.' He also describes Abrams's 'Oscilloclast' as the prototype of 'black box quackery'.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for Quackwatch, Radionics and Albert Abrams, M.D.
Nota de confianza.Page opened on 19 September 2026 and the quoted sentence and the surrounding account read. Jarvis is quoting the 1924 panel; the underlying Scientific American text was not opened, so the sentence is recorded as reported by Quackwatch.
22 de abril de 1925 · pp.451-455 · Dr. R. A. Gamble, Dean of the Norfolk Electronic Institute · Woodworth, Hudgings & Martin (The Golden Age), Brooklyn, New York
“[The Golden Age has fullest confidence in any representations that may be made by Doctor Gamble. He is well known to many of our readers and we are sure they will read this important article with great interest.—Editor.]”
The editor's bracketed note at the head of the issue's lead article, printed above a by-line reading 'By Dr. R. A. Gamble, Dean of the Norfolk Electronic Institute.' The article promotes the 'Electronic Radio Biola', a device the author says he invented: 'The Biola automatically diagnoses and treats diseases by the use of the electronic vibrations. The diagnosis is 100 percent correct'. The author praises the “famous Abrams' Electronic system” on which the device is built, and calls it a discovery 'which I am exclusively announcing in The Golden Age prior to its general publication elsewhere'.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for The Golden Age, Automatic Electronic Diagnosis
Nota de confianza.Read in the OCR text layer of the archive.org scan on 19 September 2026 on the leaves mapped to printed pages 451-455; the masthead is on the same leaf as the article's opening. Scanner hyphenation closed up; no words changed.
Procedencia del escaneo.Internet Archive item 'magazines-the-golden-age-1925'; page numbers from the _djvu.xml leaf mapping joined to _page_numbers.json, cross-checked against the issue masthead 'Volume VI ... Wednesday, April 22, 1925 ... Number 146'.
Notes.The article's own text says of the Biola that 'its price brings it within the reach of every family, even those in the poorest circumstances'. The article is a signed contribution; the bracketed endorsement printed above it is the magazine's own.
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Explicación de la organización · 2 de diciembre de 1925Verificado
En diciembre de 1925 la revista reconoció que algunos de sus anuncios habían sido 'inadvisable or premature', dijo 'We make no claim to infallibility... If we make mistakes forgive us', y se comprometió a no publicar más artículos que 'might seem to be hints to purchase'. Source: The Golden Age, 2 de diciembre de 1925
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2 de diciembre de 1925 · pp.139-141 · Woodworth, Hudgings & Martin (The Golden Age), Brooklyn, New York
“We make no claim to infallibility, but do try to be honest, fearless, sincere and helpful. If we make mistakes forgive us. We repent “seventy times seven”. ... Hereafter we shall publish no advertisements or articles other than the books of the International Bible Students Association, nor any writeups of articles which, however valuable they may be, might seem to be hints to purchase.”
An unsigned editorial reprinting the magazine's 1919 salutatory and adding an admission that some earlier announcements had been 'inadvisable or premature'. In the same item the magazine defends the April 1925 Biola article 'as a vindication of our judgment in publishing the original article' and prints eleven readers' testimonials for the device, omitting only their post offices.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for The Golden Age, The Mission of the Golden Age
Nota de confianza.Read in the OCR text layer of the archive.org scan on 19 September 2026 on the leaves mapped to printed pages 139-141. The running head OCR reads 'DrcemErR 2, 1923' and 'DeEceMBED 2, 1923' — a misreading of 1925; the issue masthead on the leaf mapped to printed page 131 reads 'Wednesday, December 2, 1925'. Scanner hyphenation closed up; the ellipsis marks an omission of about 150 words.
Procedencia del escaneo.Internet Archive item 'magazines-the-golden-age-1925'; page numbers from the _djvu.xml leaf mapping joined to _page_numbers.json, cross-checked against the issue masthead 'Volume VII ... Wednesday, December 2, 1925 ... Number 168'.
Notes.This is the nearest thing to a retraction the magazine printed on the Biola, and it is not one: the device is defended in the same breath. The undertaking to stop printing what 'might seem to be hints to purchase' was not kept: articles by Dr Betts, who sold a book on aluminium poisoning, continued to appear at least until 1935.
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2 de diciembre de 1925 · pp.139-141 · Woodworth, Hudgings & Martin (The Golden Age), Brooklyn, New York
“We make no claim to infallibility, but do try to be honest, fearless, sincere and helpful. If we make mistakes forgive us. We repent “seventy times seven”. ... Hereafter we shall publish no advertisements or articles other than the books of the International Bible Students Association, nor any writeups of articles which, however valuable they may be, might seem to be hints to purchase.”
An unsigned editorial reprinting the magazine's 1919 salutatory and adding an admission that some earlier announcements had been 'inadvisable or premature'. In the same item the magazine defends the April 1925 Biola article 'as a vindication of our judgment in publishing the original article' and prints eleven readers' testimonials for the device, omitting only their post offices.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for The Golden Age, The Mission of the Golden Age
Nota de confianza.Read in the OCR text layer of the archive.org scan on 19 September 2026 on the leaves mapped to printed pages 139-141. The running head OCR reads 'DrcemErR 2, 1923' and 'DeEceMBED 2, 1923' — a misreading of 1925; the issue masthead on the leaf mapped to printed page 131 reads 'Wednesday, December 2, 1925'. Scanner hyphenation closed up; the ellipsis marks an omission of about 150 words.
Procedencia del escaneo.Internet Archive item 'magazines-the-golden-age-1925'; page numbers from the _djvu.xml leaf mapping joined to _page_numbers.json, cross-checked against the issue masthead 'Volume VII ... Wednesday, December 2, 1925 ... Number 168'.
Notes.This is the nearest thing to a retraction the magazine printed on the Biola, and it is not one: the device is defended in the same breath. The undertaking to stop printing what 'might seem to be hints to purchase' was not kept: articles by Dr Betts, who sold a book on aluminium poisoning, continued to appear at least until 1935.
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21 de agosto de 1929 · pp.754-756 · Dr. C. T. Betts · Woodworth, Knorr & Martin (The Golden Age), Brooklyn, New York
“The American Medical Association at Chicago, Ill., was next mentioned. Then the United States Public Health Service was included in this investigation. The London Lancet also issued statements giving aluminum a clean bill of health.”
A rebuttal of an article by Albert A. Hopkins in Scientific American of March 1929 which had found aluminium cookware harmless. Betts lists the bodies Hopkins relied on — the manufacturer's works at New Kensington, the American Medical Association, the United States Public Health Service, The Lancet and the Mellon Institute — and argues that they should have been ignored in favour of his own book.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for The Golden Age, Do Aluminum Kitchen Utensils Have “A Clean Bill of Health”?
Nota de confianza.Read in the OCR text layer of the archive.org scan on 19 September 2026 on the leaves mapped to printed pages 754-755; the issue's cover page (printed page 737) lists 'ALUMINUM POISONING' among the contents. Scanner hyphenation closed up.
Procedencia del escaneo.Internet Archive item 'golden-age-1929'; page numbers from the _djvu.xml leaf mapping joined to _page_numbers.json, cross-checked against the issue masthead 'Volume X ... August 21, 1929 ... Number 259'.
Notes.This article is direct evidence that the magazine knew the position of the AMA, the United States Public Health Service and The Lancet on aluminium cookware in 1929 and printed a rejection of it. It also reproduces a refusal letter from the editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association dated 19 June 1928.
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Publicación primaria de los testigos de JehováVerificado
13 de abril de 1932 · p.442 · Dr. Chas. T. Betts · Golden Age Publishing Company, Brooklyn, New York
“Manufacturers of aluminum kitchenware continue to advertise that those opposed to the manufacture of aluminum cooking utensils are wrong, in spite of the fact that the reports show that such ware is used previous to 99 percent of all group poisoning cases.”
Betts recounts writing to a family in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, whose New Year's Day illness had been reported in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and printing their reply, which mentions soup carried in an aluminium pail.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for The Golden Age, Truth Sometimes Comes to the Surface Quickly
Nota de confianza.Read in the OCR text layer of the archive.org scan on 19 September 2026 on the leaf mapped to printed page 442, in the issue whose masthead reads 13 April 1932. Scanner hyphenation closed up.
Procedencia del escaneo.Internet Archive item '1930-1934TheGoldenAgeMagazine'; page number from the _djvu.xml leaf mapping joined to _page_numbers.json, cross-checked against the issue masthead 'Volume XIII ... Wednesday, April 13, 1932 ... Number 323'.
Notes.Establishes that Betts was still writing for the magazine on this subject in 1932, six and a half years after the magazine's December 1925 undertaking to restrict what it published.
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Publicación primaria de los testigos de JehováVerificado
10 de abril de 1935 · p.440 · Golden Age Publishing Company, Brooklyn, New York
“The Golden Age does not care what kind of cooking utensils you use. It isn't even concerned if you insist upon using aluminum of any kind. That is your privilege and responsibility. But it will not cease to warn those who are interested in their health that aluminum is injurious to the health in numerous and various ways. There is no question about this whatever.”
An unsigned item under the standing head 'Poisoning Department'. It was written in answer to a notice in Scientific American that the United States Federal Trade Commission had obtained a stipulation from a cookware seller to stop claiming that aluminium utensils cause cancer; the Golden Age reproduces that notice and rejects it.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for The Golden Age, Not Selling Cooking Utensils
Nota de confianza.Read in the OCR text layer of the archive.org scan on 19 September 2026 on the leaf mapped to printed page 440. Scanner hyphenation closed up; no words changed.
Procedencia del escaneo.Internet Archive item '1935TheGoldenAgeMagazine', uploaded by [email protected] to the 'faithmagazines' collection and marked public domain. Page number from the item's _djvu.xml leaf mapping joined to _page_numbers.json, cross-checked against the issue masthead 'Volume XVI ... Wednesday, April 10, 1935 ... Number 406' and the running heads on neighbouring leaves.
Notes.The facing page (439) carries reader items headed 'How About It?' and 'Thumbs Down on Aluminum at Fresno'. The same 1935 volume carries further aluminium items on pages 341-343 (27 February 1935) and an article by Betts on diphtheria immunisation on pages 793-795 (11 September 1935).
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Declaración explícita · 2 de abril de 1930Verificado
En abril de 1930 la revista publicó un artículo que relataba tres casos de cáncer que, según se decía, se habían curado con un régimen de zumo de uva o de otras frutas junto con una enema diaria de agua templada; de los dos primeros casos el artículo dice que el tratamiento duró 'between thirty-five and forty days'. Source: The Golden Age, 2 de abril de 1930
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2 de abril de 1930 · pp.434-437 · M. Q. · Golden Age Publishing Company, Brooklyn, New York
“If the irritation of a “chemical ferment” (such as a compound of aluminum) can, by any possibility, be considered a cause of cancer, eliminate all aluminum utensils from your kitchen.”
An article signed only with initials which recounts three cases of breast and internal cancer said to have been cured by living on grape juice with a daily warm-water enema, and endorses Dr. Betts's theory that aluminium cookware is 'a prolific cause of cancer'.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for The Golden Age, A Cure for Cancer
Nota de confianza.Read in the OCR text layer of the archive.org scan on 19 September 2026 on the leaves mapped to printed pages 434-437. Scanner hyphenation closed up; no words changed.
Procedencia del escaneo.Internet Archive item '1930-1934TheGoldenAgeMagazine'; page numbers from the _djvu.xml leaf mapping joined to _page_numbers.json, cross-checked against the issue masthead of 2 April 1930.
Notes.The article also states that the author had 'never seen a hint regarding the grape juice or fruit juice cure' in medical journals, and attributes this to 'the mental invulnerability of the medical fraternity'.
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Declaración explícita · 6 de febrero de 1929Verificado
En 1929 La Edad de Oro publicó, en un texto sin firma, que el camino hacia la salud era 'not by the route of drugs and serums' y que 'Just now the M.D.'s are drunk with power'. Source: The Golden Age, 6 de febrero de 1929
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6 de febrero de 1929 · p.301 · Woodworth, Knorr & Martin (The Golden Age), Brooklyn, New York
“If the people ever wake up and come to the conclusion that the true way to health is by route of proper food, fresh air, pure water, healthful exercise, honest occupation, correct thinking and, above all, a knowledge and reverence of Jehovah, and not by the route of drugs and serums, it is surely going to bring some needed lessons to many persons now in the medical business.”
An unsigned item printed under the magazine's 'Home and Health' heading, defending a New Hampshire father jailed for refusing to have his son vaccinated. It ends: 'Just now the M.D.'s are drunk with power, drunk and swaying.'
Nota de procedencia y verificación for The Golden Age, If the People Ever Wake Up
Nota de confianza.Read in the OCR text layer of the archive.org scan on 19 September 2026 on the leaf mapped to printed page 301; the issue contents page (printed page 290) lists 'IF THE PEOPLE EVER WAKE UP ... 301' under 'HOME AND HEALTH'. The page is set in two columns and the OCR interleaves them; the quoted sentences were each read as an unbroken run. Scanner hyphenation closed up.
Procedencia del escaneo.Internet Archive item 'golden-age-1929'; page number from the _djvu.xml leaf mapping joined to _page_numbers.json, cross-checked against the issue masthead 'Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, February 6, 1929 ... Number 245' and the running heads reading 'FEBRUARY 6, 1929' on the neighbouring leaves.
Notes.The issue names Clayton J. Woodworth as editor and Woodworth, Knorr & Martin as copartners and proprietors.
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Los ataques más duros de la revista contra la medicina como profesión eran textos firmados por autores ajenos a la organización: un activista de la higiene natural escribió que 'the practice of medicine in all its branches is the biggest cause of disease, degeneracy and death in modern life', y el editor de una revista estadounidense de curación sin fármacos escribió que la medicina 'is not founded on science. It is founded on superstition.' Source: The Golden Age, 17 de abril de 1929Source: The Golden Age, 10 de julio de 1929
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17 de abril de 1929 · pp.467-468 · Herbert M. Shelton · Woodworth, Knorr & Martin (The Golden Age), Brooklyn, New York
“I am fully convinced that the practice of medicine in all its branches is the biggest cause of disease, degeneracy and death in modern life.”
A signed article by Herbert M. Shelton, an American natural hygienist and prolific anti-vaccination writer who was not a Bible Student. It opens with a newspaper report of a ten-year-old girl who died after a scarlet fever inoculation and argues that antitoxin 'is a mere hypothesis' that 'can not be demonstrated to actually exist'.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for The Golden Age, Death by the Serum Route
Nota de confianza.Read in the OCR text layer of the archive.org scan on 19 September 2026 on the leaves mapped to printed pages 467-468. Scanner hyphenation closed up.
Procedencia del escaneo.Internet Archive item 'golden-age-1929'; page numbers from the _djvu.xml leaf mapping joined to _page_numbers.json, cross-checked against the issue masthead of 17 April 1929.
Notes.A signed article by an outside writer, printed without editorial qualification, in the issue whose unsigned lead article made the same case about aluminium.
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Publicación primaria de los testigos de JehováVerificado
10 de julio de 1929 · pp.658-660 · Dr. G. R. Clements, editor of How To Live Magazine · Woodworth, Knorr & Martin (The Golden Age), Brooklyn, New York
“The practice of medicine is not founded on science. It is founded on superstition. It had its birth in the times of mental darkness ... Its remedies are poisons and knives, and its patrons and supporters of today are those who are deceived by its false propaganda.”
A signed contribution by the editor of an American drugless-healing magazine, reproduced with the by-line in square brackets. It argues that organised medicine is placing physicians on health boards and editorial staffs in order to suppress unfavourable information.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for The Golden Age, A Dying Institution
Nota de confianza.Read in the OCR text layer of the archive.org scan on 19 September 2026 on the leaves mapped to printed pages 658-660. The issue date is derived from the masthead pages either side, not from a running head on the page itself; the fortnightly 32-page issue pattern of volume X was checked across the whole volume. Scanner hyphenation closed up; the ellipsis marks an omission of about 30 words.
Procedencia del escaneo.Internet Archive item 'golden-age-1929'; page numbers from the _djvu.xml leaf mapping joined to _page_numbers.json. The issue masthead for Number 256 (10 July 1929) is on the leaf mapped to printed page 643, and the next masthead, for 24 July 1929, is at printed page 675, so page 658 falls in the issue of 10 July 1929.
Notes.The by-line is printed in square brackets at the head of the article: '[By Dr. G. R. Clements, Editor of How To Live Magazine]'. Several widely circulated versions of this quotation present it as a Watch Tower Society statement.
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El cuadro no es unilateral, y esta página se equivocaría si diera a entender lo contrario. La revista publicó discrepancias con su propia línea, y no enseñó que el tratamiento médico estuviera prohibido.
La revista también publicó opiniones contrarias a su propia línea en materia de salud. En diciembre de 1929 publicó un artículo que objetaba que 'the general impression conveyed through your columns has been highly derogatory to the medical profession', defendía la extirpación de las amígdalas enfermas y sostenía que los médicos no eran menos honrados que cualquier otra persona. Source: The Golden Age, 11 de diciembre de 1929
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11 de diciembre de 1929 · pp.179-180 · Woodworth, Knorr & Martin (The Golden Age), Brooklyn, New York
“In fact the general impression conveyed through your columns has been highly derogatory to the medical profession, and many, as novices, are unintentionally led to believe that our M.D.'s are “all wet”.”
A contributed article taking issue with the magazine's own coverage. It reviews the aluminium, dietetics, vivisection and tonsillectomy material, defends the removal of diseased tonsils, and concludes that doctors 'individually ... are no less capable of honesty and mercy than any other individual'. The issue contents page lists the article under 'Home and Health'.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for The Golden Age, Let Us Be Fair to the M.D.'s
Nota de confianza.Read in the OCR text layer of the archive.org scan on 19 September 2026 on the leaves mapped to printed pages 179-180; the contents page (printed page 178) lists 'Let Us Be Fair to the M.D.'s'. No by-line was legible in the scan; a reader's letter in the issue of 2 April 1930 (page 438) refers to 'an article written by Harold L. Dawson' in 'your December 11 (1929) issue', which is the likeliest attribution.
Procedencia del escaneo.Internet Archive item 'golden-age-1929'; page numbers from the _djvu.xml leaf mapping joined to _page_numbers.json, cross-checked against the issue masthead 'Volume XI ... Wednesday, December 11, 1929 ... Number 267' and the running head 'DECEMBER 11, 1929'.
Notes.The magazine printed this dissent from its own health coverage in its 'Home and Health' section. A reader's letter in the issue of 2 April 1930, page 438, from E. J. Stanvalt, refers to 'your December 11 (1929) issue of The Golden Age ... an article written by Harold L. Dawson'.
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Declaración explícita · 15 de enero de 1936Verificado
A pesar de su hostilidad hacia la medicina organizada, la revista no enseñaba que la medicina estuviera prohibida: en enero de 1936 afirmó que 'There is nothing in the scriptures of God's Word that forbids the taking of medicine that is known to be curative', y rechazó la curación por la fe. Source: The Golden Age, 15 de enero de 1936
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15 de enero de 1936 · pp.230-231 · Golden Age Publishing Company, Brooklyn, New York
“There is nothing in the scriptures of God's Word that forbids the taking of medicine that is known to be curative and not really injurious to the bodily health of Christians whose lives and bodies are truly devoted to Jehovah God and His service.”
An article answering readers who asked whether Christians should take medicine at all. It cites 1 Timothy 5:23, argues that the first-century gifts of healing were not meant to continue, and rejects faith healing.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for The Golden Age, Is Taking Medicine Unscriptural?
Nota de confianza.Read in the OCR text layer of the archive.org scan on 19 September 2026 on the leaf mapped to printed page 230. Scanner hyphenation closed up.
Procedencia del escaneo.Internet Archive item '1936-1937TheGoldenAgeMagazine'; page numbers from the _djvu.xml leaf mapping joined to _page_numbers.json, cross-checked against the running head 'January 15, 1936'.
Notes.Printed four pages from the anti-serum material in the same issue.
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La postura que la organización publica actualmente es favorable al tratamiento profesional: La Atalaya núm. 1 de 2023, un número dedicado a la salud mental, afirma que 'The Bible acknowledges that we may need to seek medical treatment' y que 'Many have found relief by learning what they can about their mental illness from reliable sources and by getting qualified professional help'. Source: The Watchtower (Public Edition), 2023Source: The Watchtower (Public Edition), 2023
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2023 · pp.12-13 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania
“The Bible acknowledges that we may need to seek medical treatment. Many have found relief by learning what they can about their mental illness from reliable sources and by getting qualified professional help.”
Part of The Watchtower No. 1 2023, an issue devoted to mental health. The section is built on Matthew 9:12 and recommends exercise, sleep, diet, accepting help from others and reading encouraging Bible passages alongside professional treatment. Named case studies describe bipolar disorder, depression, an eating disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for The Watchtower (Public Edition), 4 | The Bible Offers Practical Advice
Nota de confianza.Full article read on the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026; page markers in the page's own HTML place the quoted paragraph on page 12. The issue is numbered rather than dated, so only the year is given.
2023 · pp.14-15 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania
“Because of his illness, your friend may say or do things that hurt you. He may cancel plans with you or become irritable. Be patient and understanding as you offer the support he needs.”
The companion article in the same issue, advising friends and relatives to listen, to speak consolingly, to offer practical help and to be patient. It quotes people whose spouses or friends live with clinical depression, anxiety disorder and eating disorders.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for The Watchtower (Public Edition), How to Help Those With Mental Health Challenges
Nota de confianza.Full article read on the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026; page markers in the page's own HTML place the quoted paragraph on page 15.
Declaración explícita · 15 de enero de 1963Verificado
En enero de 1963, La Atalaya dijo a sus lectores que 'Just how scientific psychoanalysis really is no one is certain', que 'At best it leaves much to be desired', y nombró a Freud junto con Darwin, Marx y los altos críticos como quienes habían 'played a sinister role in destroying the guiding influence of the Bible for many'. Source: The Watchtower, 15 de enero de 1963
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15 de enero de 1963 · pp.37-39 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania
“Just how scientific psychoanalysis really is no one is certain. At best it leaves much to be desired. Its aim to help people achieve a normal capacity for living is not wrong, but some of its methods are.”
An article surveying sources of advice — newspaper columns, marriage counsellors, psychoanalysis — and directing readers instead to the Bible and to the congregation. It names Wellhausen's school of higher critics, Darwin, Freud and Marx together as having 'played a sinister role in destroying the guiding influence of the Bible for many'.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for The Watchtower, Where to Turn for Counsel
Nota de confianza.Full article text read on the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026; page markers in the page's own HTML place the quoted paragraph on page 38.
Notes.The earliest clearly stated reservation about psychoanalysis that could be located in the library, which holds The Watchtower from 1950.
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Declaración explícita · 15 de abril de 1975Verificado
Una respuesta de Preguntas de los lectores del 15 de abril de 1975 decía que consultar a un psiquiatra 'is a matter for personal decision', pero preguntaba, acerca de las creencias de los psiquiatras: 'Would you want to mold your life according to the thinking of men who view matters in this manner?'; aconsejaba que 'if a Witness does consult such he should carefully scrutinize any treatment recommended', y remitía a los lectores que tuvieran 'feelings of hostility or despondency' a los ancianos de la congregación, conforme a Santiago 5:13-16. Source: The Watchtower, 15 de abril de 1975
La posición de la organización o su explicación posterior: La misma respuesta decía que los testigos de Jehová 'do not categorically rule out the possibility of treatment by doctors specializing in emotional or mental problems' y que 'the final decision is his own'.
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15 de abril de 1975 · pp.255-256 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania
“Whether a Christian will consult a psychiatrist, or any other doctor, is a matter for personal decision. ... So, while Jehovah's witnesses do not categorically rule out the possibility of treatment by doctors specializing in emotional or mental problems, if a Witness does consult such he should carefully scrutinize any treatment recommended.”
A ruling answering the question 'Do Jehovah's witnesses feel that it is proper to consult a psychiatrist?' It notes that many analysts are atheists or agnostics, cites a study in which over half agreed with Freud that belief in God was 'infantile', and asks: 'Would you want to mold your life according to the thinking of men who view matters in this manner?' It directs readers with 'feelings of hostility or despondency' to the congregation elders under James 5:13-16, and suggests that uncertainty about a therapy 'may' be discussed with elders, 'although the final decision is his own'.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for The Watchtower, Questions From Readers
Nota de confianza.Full item read on the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026; the page markers in the page's own HTML place it on pages 255-256. The ellipsis marks an omission of about 700 words between the opening sentence and the closing summary.
Notes.A Questions From Readers item rather than a feature article. It does not forbid psychiatric care.
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Reinterpretación posterior · 8 de septiembre de 1986Verificado
Para septiembre de 1986, ¡Despertad! trataba la enfermedad mental como una enfermedad de la química cerebral: describía los medicamentos antipsicóticos como un tratamiento eficaz y preguntaba: 'Why, then, look upon patients who use these medications as weak-minded or as drug addicts?' Source: Awake!, 8 de septiembre de 1986
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8 de septiembre de 1986 · pp.6-10 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania
“Why, then, look upon patients who use these medications as weak-minded or as drug addicts? Antipsychotic drugs are not addictive, do not make patients high, and are not taken for pleasure.”
Part of an issue-length treatment headed 'Taking the Mystery out of Mental Illness'. It follows a woman through electroshock therapy, hospitalisation and antipsychotic medication, quotes NIMH researchers, treats schizophrenia as a disease of brain chemistry, and cautions against 'sensational claims' for alternative treatments including orthomolecular psychiatry.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for Awake!, Mental Illness—Is There a Cure?
Nota de confianza.Full article read on the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026; page markers in the page's own HTML place the quoted paragraph on page 7.
Notes.Eleven years earlier the same publisher had told readers to scrutinise any treatment a psychiatrist recommended (Questions From Readers, 15 April 1975).
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Reinterpretación posterior · 1 de mayo de 2003Verificado
En mayo de 2003, La Atalaya respondió 'No' a la pregunta de si un cristiano que oye voces está necesariamente bajo ataque demoníaco, señaló que la esquizofrenia es 'a disease often treatable with medication', y dijo que 'while an individual who reports hearing voices or who has other disturbing sensations may not want to discount demon harassment, he should definitely be encouraged to consider investigating whether there is a physical explanation'. Source: The Watchtower, 1 de mayo de 2003
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1 de mayo de 2003 · p.31 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania
“It is reported that some who suffer from schizophrenia, a disease often treatable with medication, hear voices or experience other symptoms that could appear to be something uncanny. ... while an individual who reports hearing voices or who has other disturbing sensations may not want to discount demon harassment, he should definitely be encouraged to consider investigating whether there is a physical explanation for what he is experiencing.”
A ruling answering 'If a Christian hears voices, does that necessarily mean that he is under demon attack?' The answer begins 'No.' A footnote refers readers to the 8 September 1986 Awake!
Nota de procedencia y verificación for The Watchtower, Questions From Readers
Nota de confianza.Full item read on the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026; the page marker in the page's own HTML places it on page 31. The ellipsis marks an omission of about 20 words. An earlier version of this record cut the quotation at 'something uncanny.' and resumed at 'he should definitely be encouraged', which removed the concessive clause that governs that sentence; the clause has been restored.
Notes.The answer still leaves demon harassment open: the reader 'may not want to discount demon harassment', while being urged to investigate a physical explanation.
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La posición de la organización o su explicación posterior: El folleto de 1978 Unseen Spirits da el mismo consejo, a la vez que argumenta, a partir de Jeremías 10:2-5 e Isaías 44:14-20, que esos objetos no tienen poder en sí mismos y que no hay que temerlos: 'just as a scarecrow cannot talk or walk or help or hurt anyone, the same is true of the images that men make and call sacred'.
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1995 · pp.114-115 · par. 14 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania
“Even if you have not practiced spiritism, get rid of anything having spiritistic uses or overtones. This includes books, magazines, videos, posters, musical recordings, and objects used for spiritistic purposes. Also included are idols, amulets and other items worn for protection, and gifts received from practicers of spiritism.”
A study book used for Bible studies with new adherents. The paragraph applies the example of the Ephesians of Acts 19:19 and is followed by an experience from Thailand in which a couple 'got rid of objects associated with spiritism' and were relieved of demon harassment.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for Knowledge That Leads to Everlasting Life, Chapter 12: Resist Wicked Spirit Forces
Nota de confianza.Chapter read on the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026; the page marker in the page's own HTML falls inside the second quoted sentence, after 'This includes books, magazines,', so that sentence runs from page 114 on to page 115.
Notes.This formulation extends beyond a person's own former practices to gifts received from spiritists. It does not mention second-hand goods, house contents or purchases generally.
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15 de abril de 2006 · p.31 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania
“It is imperative for such ones to get rid of all objects related to spiritism. This includes books, magazines, movies, material from electronic sources, music recordings that have spiritistic overtones, as well as amulets or other items worn for “protection” or linked to spiritistic practices.”
A ruling answering 'If a person is being harassed by the demons, what can he do to get relief?' The answer combines prayer, Bible study and the disposal of spiritism-related objects, citing Acts 19:19 and Deuteronomy 7:25, 26.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for The Watchtower, Questions From Readers
Nota de confianza.Full item read on the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026; the page marker in the page's own HTML places it on page 31. Located through the 2006 annual index entry 'Relief from demon harassment, 4/15'.
1978 · pp.41-42 · pars. 81-82 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania
“If we want Jehovah's friendship and protection we must break all connections and associations with spiritism in its many forms. That includes disposing of any objects that relate to spiritism. ... And God's Word shows that, just as a scarecrow cannot talk or walk or help or hurt anyone, the same is true of the images that men make and call sacred.”
The brochure urges readers to destroy objects connected with spiritism, citing the burning of the magical books at Ephesus in Acts 19:19, and at the same time argues from Jeremiah 10:2-5 and Isaiah 44:14-20 that such objects have no power of their own and should not be feared. The two quoted sentences are in paragraphs 81 and 82; the section runs on to page 47.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for Unseen Spirits—Do They Help Us? Or Do They Harm Us? (brochure), With Full Faith Take Action Now
Nota de confianza.Full section read on the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026; the page markers in the page's own HTML place the first quoted sentence on page 41 (par. 81) and the second on page 42 (par. 82) — no page-43 marker intervenes. The ellipsis marks an omission of about 180 words. An earlier version of this record gave the second page as 44; that was wrong.
1995 · pp.114-115 · par. 14 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania
“Even if you have not practiced spiritism, get rid of anything having spiritistic uses or overtones. This includes books, magazines, videos, posters, musical recordings, and objects used for spiritistic purposes. Also included are idols, amulets and other items worn for protection, and gifts received from practicers of spiritism.”
A study book used for Bible studies with new adherents. The paragraph applies the example of the Ephesians of Acts 19:19 and is followed by an experience from Thailand in which a couple 'got rid of objects associated with spiritism' and were relieved of demon harassment.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for Knowledge That Leads to Everlasting Life, Chapter 12: Resist Wicked Spirit Forces
Nota de confianza.Chapter read on the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026; the page marker in the page's own HTML falls inside the second quoted sentence, after 'This includes books, magazines,', so that sentence runs from page 114 on to page 115.
Notes.This formulation extends beyond a person's own former practices to gifts received from spiritists. It does not mention second-hand goods, house contents or purchases generally.
Consultado. 19 de septiembre de 2026 · Identificador de la fuente.src-hlth-kl-1995-ch12-get-rid
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15 de abril de 2006 · p.31 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania
“It is imperative for such ones to get rid of all objects related to spiritism. This includes books, magazines, movies, material from electronic sources, music recordings that have spiritistic overtones, as well as amulets or other items worn for “protection” or linked to spiritistic practices.”
A ruling answering 'If a person is being harassed by the demons, what can he do to get relief?' The answer combines prayer, Bible study and the disposal of spiritism-related objects, citing Acts 19:19 and Deuteronomy 7:25, 26.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for The Watchtower, Questions From Readers
Nota de confianza.Full item read on the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026; the page marker in the page's own HTML places it on page 31. Located through the 2006 annual index entry 'Relief from demon harassment, 4/15'.
1978 · pp.41-42 · pars. 81-82 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania
“If we want Jehovah's friendship and protection we must break all connections and associations with spiritism in its many forms. That includes disposing of any objects that relate to spiritism. ... And God's Word shows that, just as a scarecrow cannot talk or walk or help or hurt anyone, the same is true of the images that men make and call sacred.”
The brochure urges readers to destroy objects connected with spiritism, citing the burning of the magical books at Ephesus in Acts 19:19, and at the same time argues from Jeremiah 10:2-5 and Isaiah 44:14-20 that such objects have no power of their own and should not be feared. The two quoted sentences are in paragraphs 81 and 82; the section runs on to page 47.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for Unseen Spirits—Do They Help Us? Or Do They Harm Us? (brochure), With Full Faith Take Action Now
Nota de confianza.Full section read on the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026; the page markers in the page's own HTML place the first quoted sentence on page 41 (par. 81) and the second on page 42 (par. 82) — no page-43 marker intervenes. The ellipsis marks an omission of about 180 words. An earlier version of this record gave the second page as 44; that was wrong.
1986 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania
“objects bringing demon harassment: hp 130 / destroying objects related to: us 41-42, 44-47”
Two consecutive lines under the index heading 'Demonism' — the second is a sub-entry indented under the first, and nothing stands between them. The heading also carries sub-entries for fetishism, Ouija boards, hypnotism, meditation, the film The Exorcist, the game Dungeons and Dragons, and dozens of published 'modern-day' experiences.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for Watch Tower Publications Index 1930-1985, Demonism
Nota de confianza.The index heading was read in full on the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026, and the two lines quoted are consecutive; the oblique stroke marks the line break, not an omission. 'us' was confirmed on the library as the symbol for the 1978 brochure Unseen Spirits. The symbol 'hp' was not confirmed: no publication under that symbol is in the library's English holdings, so page 130 of it could not be read and no claim on this site rests on it.
Explicación de la organización · marzo de 2005Verificado
El relato que la organización publica hoy sobre la revista que contenía este material no menciona su contenido sobre la salud: Nuestro Ministerio del Reino de marzo de 2005 dice que el primer número de The Golden Age 'proved to be a most valuable tool in the preaching work', y dice de la revista en su forma actual, ¡Despertad!, que 'From its beginning, this magazine has contributed mightily to the great witness that has been given since 1919'. Source: Our Kingdom Ministry, marzo de 2005Source: Jehovah's Witnesses—Proclaimers of God's Kingdom, 1993
La posición de la organización o su explicación posterior: La propia historia de la organización, Los testigos de Jehová, proclamadores del Reino de Dios (1993), registra a Clayton J. Woodworth como redactor de The Golden Age y de Consolation, y dice que 'remained firm in faith and loyal to Jehovah's organization' hasta su muerte en 1951; su índice enumera cuatro subentradas sobre él, ninguna de ellas relativa al contenido de la revista sobre la salud.
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marzo de 2005 · p.1 · pars. 1-3 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania
“On October 1, 1919, the first issue of the magazine The Golden Age was published. It proved to be a most valuable tool in the preaching work. ... From its beginning, this magazine has contributed mightily to the great witness that has been given since 1919.”
The announcement that Awake! would change its content from January 2006. Paragraph 1 is about The Golden Age; paragraph 2 traces the magazine's descent from The Golden Age (1919) through Consolation (1937) to Awake! (1946) and says 'a number of adjustments were made to The Golden Age to meet the changing needs of the times'; the second quoted sentence is from paragraph 3, whose subject is the magazine in its present form, traced back to 1919.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for Our Kingdom Ministry, More Emphasis on the Bible!
Nota de confianza.Full item read on the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026; the page marker in the page's own HTML places it on page 1. The ellipsis marks an omission of about 130 words, spanning paragraph 2 — the paragraph in which the magazine changes its name. The two quoted sentences therefore do not have the same grammatical subject, and the record says so.
1993 · p.634 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania
“Later he served as editor of the magazines “The Golden Age” and “Consolation.” He remained firm in faith and loyal to Jehovah's organization right down till his death in 1951, at 81 years of age.”
A boxed biographical note in the organisation's own history of itself. The book's index lists Clayton J. Woodworth under four sub-entries only: his arrest and sentencing, his editorship of the two magazines, The Finished Mystery, and his reaction to disappointed expectations.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for Jehovah's Witnesses—Proclaimers of God's Kingdom, Chapter 28: Testings and Siftings From Within (box, 'C. J. Woodworth')
Nota de confianza.Chapter and index read on the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026; page markers in the page's own HTML place the box on page 634 and the index entry on pages 726-749. A search of chapters 28 and 29 for 'Golden Age' within 900 characters of any of the words health, medicine, diet, aluminium, vaccination or remedy returned nothing.
Notes.What the official history says about the editor under whom the health material appeared. Nothing addressing that material was found in the chapters or in the index entry.
Consultado. 19 de septiembre de 2026 · Identificador de la fuente.src-hlth-jv-1993-woodworth
Tres citas que se repiten con frecuencia en este tema son inexactas. El pasaje 'Avoid serum inoculations and vaccinations, as they pollute the blood stream with their filthy pus' está en la página 107 de La Edad de Oro del 13 de noviembre de 1929, no del 12 de noviembre; el encabezamiento de esa página dice 'NOVEMBER 13, 1929'. Tampoco es una declaración editorial: es una línea de una lista de reglas de salud dentro de un artículo firmado, 'The Way to Better Health', de H. W. Newcomb, que empieza en la página 106. Y la afirmación de que la medicina 'is not founded on science' procede de un artículo firmado por el editor de una revista de salud ajena a la organización, no de los propios redactores de la Sociedad Watch Tower. Source: The Golden Age, 13 de noviembre de 1929Source: The Golden Age, 10 de julio de 1929Source: JWfacts.com, marzo de 2026 (unverified)
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13 de noviembre de 1929 · pp.106-107 (the sentence on p. 107) · H. W. Newcomb · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society (Golden Age Publishing)
“Avoid serum inoculations and vaccinations, as they pollute the blood stream with their filthy pus.”
A signed contribution by H. W. Newcomb, beginning on page 106 and listed in the issue contents under “Science and Invention”. The Golden Age was a general-interest magazine that carried signed articles by outside contributors alongside its own editorial matter, so this sentence is the contributor’s, not a statement of the organisation’s position. Four lines above it in the same contents list is an item advising readers to avoid aluminium cooking utensils.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for The Golden Age, Health
Nota de confianza.Scan opened; the sentence is on printed page 107, whose own running head reads "NOVEMBER 13, 1929 - THE GOLDEN AGE - 107". The by-line was confirmed from the article heading on page 106 and the issue contents list.
Procedencia del escaneo.Internet Archive item 'golden-age-1929' (OCR text searched).
Notes.Two common miscitations: the sentence is often given as The Golden Age of 1 May 1929 p. 502, which is the wrong issue; and it is usually quoted without "and vaccinations", which is in the printed text. It is also commonly presented as the magazine's own voice when it carries a by-line.
Consultado. 19 de septiembre de 2026 · Identificador de la fuente.src-g-1929-1113-vaccination-filthy-pus
Publicación primaria de los testigos de JehováVerificado
10 de julio de 1929 · pp.658-660 · Dr. G. R. Clements, editor of How To Live Magazine · Woodworth, Knorr & Martin (The Golden Age), Brooklyn, New York
“The practice of medicine is not founded on science. It is founded on superstition. It had its birth in the times of mental darkness ... Its remedies are poisons and knives, and its patrons and supporters of today are those who are deceived by its false propaganda.”
A signed contribution by the editor of an American drugless-healing magazine, reproduced with the by-line in square brackets. It argues that organised medicine is placing physicians on health boards and editorial staffs in order to suppress unfavourable information.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for The Golden Age, A Dying Institution
Nota de confianza.Read in the OCR text layer of the archive.org scan on 19 September 2026 on the leaves mapped to printed pages 658-660. The issue date is derived from the masthead pages either side, not from a running head on the page itself; the fortnightly 32-page issue pattern of volume X was checked across the whole volume. Scanner hyphenation closed up; the ellipsis marks an omission of about 30 words.
Procedencia del escaneo.Internet Archive item 'golden-age-1929'; page numbers from the _djvu.xml leaf mapping joined to _page_numbers.json. The issue masthead for Number 256 (10 July 1929) is on the leaf mapped to printed page 643, and the next masthead, for 24 July 1929, is at printed page 675, so page 658 falls in the issue of 10 July 1929.
Notes.The by-line is printed in square brackets at the head of the article: '[By Dr. G. R. Clements, Editor of How To Live Magazine]'. Several widely circulated versions of this quotation present it as a Watch Tower Society statement.
Consultado. 19 de septiembre de 2026 · Identificador de la fuente.src-hlth-ga-1929-0710-dying-institution
A page collecting Watch Tower medical material, recorded here only as a locator. It attributes two strongly worded statements about aluminium cooking utensils to The Golden Age of 26 October 1932, page 35, and of 28 May 1930, page 650, and cites issues of 1933, 1936 and 1937 for readers' testimonials. The wording of those attributed statements is deliberately not reproduced in this ledger, because none of it could be checked against an original.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for JWfacts.com, Dangerous Medical Advice and Changes
Nota de confianza.Used as a locator only. The bound volumes of The Golden Age for 1926-1928, the complete volumes for 1930-1934, and the volumes for 1936-1937 are not on archive.org; the only 1930-1934 item available is a compilation of seven issues and the only 1936-1937 item a compilation of six. None of the quotations this page attributes to those issues could therefore be checked against an original, and none of them is reproduced or used as evidence anywhere on this site. The page also dates the 'filthy pus' passage to 12 November 1929; on the scan of the bound volume that passage is on page 107 of the issue of 13 November 1929, whose printed running head reads 'NOVEMBER 13, 1929'.
Notes.Recorded so that a reader can see which widely repeated quotations this site has not used, and why.
Consultado. 19 de septiembre de 2026 · Identificador de la fuente.src-hlth-jwfacts-medical
El material sobre salud de La Edad de Oro se solapa con tres temas que este sitio ya documenta: la vacunación, la sangre y los trasplantes de órganos. Las dos campañas coincidieron en los mismos números y a veces en la misma lista de instrucciones: la página 107 del número del 13 de noviembre de 1929, en un artículo firmado y titulado 'The Way to Better Health By H. W. Newcomb', dice a los lectores que 'Avoid the use of aluminum cooking utensils and alum baking powders' y, cuatro líneas más abajo en la misma columna, que 'Avoid serum inoculations and vaccinations'. Source: The Golden Age, 13 de noviembre de 1929Source: The Golden Age, 17 de abril de 1929Source: The Golden Age, 6 de febrero de 1929Source: The Golden Age, 15 de enero de 1936
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13 de noviembre de 1929 · pp.106-107 (the sentence on p. 107) · H. W. Newcomb · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society (Golden Age Publishing)
“Avoid serum inoculations and vaccinations, as they pollute the blood stream with their filthy pus.”
A signed contribution by H. W. Newcomb, beginning on page 106 and listed in the issue contents under “Science and Invention”. The Golden Age was a general-interest magazine that carried signed articles by outside contributors alongside its own editorial matter, so this sentence is the contributor’s, not a statement of the organisation’s position. Four lines above it in the same contents list is an item advising readers to avoid aluminium cooking utensils.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for The Golden Age, Health
Nota de confianza.Scan opened; the sentence is on printed page 107, whose own running head reads "NOVEMBER 13, 1929 - THE GOLDEN AGE - 107". The by-line was confirmed from the article heading on page 106 and the issue contents list.
Procedencia del escaneo.Internet Archive item 'golden-age-1929' (OCR text searched).
Notes.Two common miscitations: the sentence is often given as The Golden Age of 1 May 1929 p. 502, which is the wrong issue; and it is usually quoted without "and vaccinations", which is in the printed text. It is also commonly presented as the magazine's own voice when it carries a by-line.
Consultado. 19 de septiembre de 2026 · Identificador de la fuente.src-g-1929-1113-vaccination-filthy-pus
Publicación primaria de los testigos de JehováVerificado
17 de abril de 1929 · pp.467-468 · Herbert M. Shelton · Woodworth, Knorr & Martin (The Golden Age), Brooklyn, New York
“I am fully convinced that the practice of medicine in all its branches is the biggest cause of disease, degeneracy and death in modern life.”
A signed article by Herbert M. Shelton, an American natural hygienist and prolific anti-vaccination writer who was not a Bible Student. It opens with a newspaper report of a ten-year-old girl who died after a scarlet fever inoculation and argues that antitoxin 'is a mere hypothesis' that 'can not be demonstrated to actually exist'.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for The Golden Age, Death by the Serum Route
Nota de confianza.Read in the OCR text layer of the archive.org scan on 19 September 2026 on the leaves mapped to printed pages 467-468. Scanner hyphenation closed up.
Procedencia del escaneo.Internet Archive item 'golden-age-1929'; page numbers from the _djvu.xml leaf mapping joined to _page_numbers.json, cross-checked against the issue masthead of 17 April 1929.
Notes.A signed article by an outside writer, printed without editorial qualification, in the issue whose unsigned lead article made the same case about aluminium.
Consultado. 19 de septiembre de 2026 · Identificador de la fuente.src-hlth-ga-1929-0417-shelton-serum-route
Publicación primaria de los testigos de JehováVerificado
6 de febrero de 1929 · p.301 · Woodworth, Knorr & Martin (The Golden Age), Brooklyn, New York
“If the people ever wake up and come to the conclusion that the true way to health is by route of proper food, fresh air, pure water, healthful exercise, honest occupation, correct thinking and, above all, a knowledge and reverence of Jehovah, and not by the route of drugs and serums, it is surely going to bring some needed lessons to many persons now in the medical business.”
An unsigned item printed under the magazine's 'Home and Health' heading, defending a New Hampshire father jailed for refusing to have his son vaccinated. It ends: 'Just now the M.D.'s are drunk with power, drunk and swaying.'
Nota de procedencia y verificación for The Golden Age, If the People Ever Wake Up
Nota de confianza.Read in the OCR text layer of the archive.org scan on 19 September 2026 on the leaf mapped to printed page 301; the issue contents page (printed page 290) lists 'IF THE PEOPLE EVER WAKE UP ... 301' under 'HOME AND HEALTH'. The page is set in two columns and the OCR interleaves them; the quoted sentences were each read as an unbroken run. Scanner hyphenation closed up.
Procedencia del escaneo.Internet Archive item 'golden-age-1929'; page number from the _djvu.xml leaf mapping joined to _page_numbers.json, cross-checked against the issue masthead 'Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, February 6, 1929 ... Number 245' and the running heads reading 'FEBRUARY 6, 1929' on the neighbouring leaves.
Notes.The issue names Clayton J. Woodworth as editor and Woodworth, Knorr & Martin as copartners and proprietors.
Consultado. 19 de septiembre de 2026 · Identificador de la fuente.src-hlth-ga-1929-0206-if-people-wake-up
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15 de enero de 1936 · pp.227-228 · Golden Age Publishing Company, Brooklyn, New York
“In the past it has published numerous health articles from various sources where the writers seemed to know what they were talking about. These articles have not always been consistent with one another; which is not to be wondered at, because no two health experts agree.”
The magazine's own summing-up of its health content, opening the issue. It goes on: 'This is about all The Golden Age knows on the subject of health. It has no ambition to be known as a health magazine ... The Golden Age claims no monopoly of wisdom on the subject.' It also says 'Surgery is sometimes essential, but before submitting to the knife try the prescriptions above given', repeats that Jesus's fish 'certainly was not fried in an aluminum frying pan', and calls it 'nonsense to say that mankind must have 1,200 kinds of poison scratched into his arm to keep him well'.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for The Golden Age, Some Ideas on Health
Nota de confianza.Read in the OCR text layer of the archive.org scan on 19 September 2026 on the leaves mapped to printed pages 226-228; the contents page (printed page 226) lists 'Some Ideas on Health ... 227', the leaf mapped to page 228 carries the running head '228 The Golden Age Brooklyn, N.Y.' and the leaves mapped to pages 229 and 231 carry running heads reading 'January 15, 1936'. The two-column OCR on page 227 is badly interleaved. The quoted sentence, and the phrases 'no ambition to be known as a health magazine', 'claims no monopoly of wisdom on the subject' and 'Surgery is sometimes essential, but before submitting to the knife try the prescriptions above given', were each read as an unbroken run of text. The sentence about 1,200 kinds of poison was not: it survives only as two overlapping partial renderings of the same interleaved column, which agree with each other, and is recorded on that basis.
Procedencia del escaneo.Internet Archive item '1936-1937TheGoldenAgeMagazine', uploaded by [email protected] to the 'faithmagazines' collection and marked public domain. Page numbers from the item's _djvu.xml leaf mapping joined to _page_numbers.json, cross-checked against the running heads reading 'January 15, 1936' on the following leaves.
Notes.The nearest thing found to a retrospective statement on the magazine's health content. It withdraws no specific claim, names no error and does not mention the aluminium campaign; it says only that the articles came from various sources and were not always consistent.
Consultado. 19 de septiembre de 2026 · Identificador de la fuente.src-hlth-ga-1936-0115-some-ideas-health
22 de abril de 1925 · pp.451-455 · Dr. R. A. Gamble, Dean of the Norfolk Electronic Institute · Woodworth, Hudgings & Martin (The Golden Age), Brooklyn, New York
“[The Golden Age has fullest confidence in any representations that may be made by Doctor Gamble. He is well known to many of our readers and we are sure they will read this important article with great interest.—Editor.]”
2 de diciembre de 1925 · pp.139-141 · Woodworth, Hudgings & Martin (The Golden Age), Brooklyn, New York
“We make no claim to infallibility, but do try to be honest, fearless, sincere and helpful. If we make mistakes forgive us. We repent “seventy times seven”. ... Hereafter we shall publish no advertisements or articles other than the books of the International Bible Students Association, nor any writeups of articles which, however valuable they may be, might seem to be hints to purchase.”
6 de febrero de 1929 · p.301 · Woodworth, Knorr & Martin (The Golden Age), Brooklyn, New York
“If the people ever wake up and come to the conclusion that the true way to health is by route of proper food, fresh air, pure water, healthful exercise, honest occupation, correct thinking and, above all, a knowledge and reverence of Jehovah, and not by the route of drugs and serums, it is surely going to bring some needed lessons to many persons now in the medical business.”
20 de febrero de 1929 · pp.323-326 · Dr. C. T. Betts · Woodworth, Knorr & Martin (The Golden Age), Brooklyn, New York
“It is apparent from the above various quotations and statements that aluminum, in either the organic or the inorganic form, produces poisoning to the soil, poisoning to the vegetation, poisoning to the animals eating such vegetation, and poisoning to human beings consuming the drug.”
3 de abril de 1929 · pp.436-437 · Dr. G. Schmidt · Woodworth, Knorr & Martin (The Golden Age), Brooklyn, New York
“In a recent retest of over a hundred cases of cancer, in various parts of the body, I found this aluminum poison at the point of cancer in every case.”
17 de abril de 1929 · pp.451-460 · compiled by W. E. Reynolds, N.D. · Woodworth, Knorr & Martin (The Golden Age), Brooklyn, New York
“If you boil vegetables in aluminum ware you always produce a poison, in the opinion of the scientists and doctors just quoted, the name of the poison being determined by the kind of food you cook.”
10 de julio de 1929 · pp.658-660 · Dr. G. R. Clements, editor of How To Live Magazine · Woodworth, Knorr & Martin (The Golden Age), Brooklyn, New York
“The practice of medicine is not founded on science. It is founded on superstition. It had its birth in the times of mental darkness ... Its remedies are poisons and knives, and its patrons and supporters of today are those who are deceived by its false propaganda.”
21 de agosto de 1929 · pp.754-756 · Dr. C. T. Betts · Woodworth, Knorr & Martin (The Golden Age), Brooklyn, New York
“The American Medical Association at Chicago, Ill., was next mentioned. Then the United States Public Health Service was included in this investigation. The London Lancet also issued statements giving aluminum a clean bill of health.”
11 de diciembre de 1929 · pp.179-180 · Woodworth, Knorr & Martin (The Golden Age), Brooklyn, New York
“In fact the general impression conveyed through your columns has been highly derogatory to the medical profession, and many, as novices, are unintentionally led to believe that our M.D.'s are “all wet”.”
2 de abril de 1930 · p.438 · Golden Age Publishing Company, Brooklyn, New York
“By this time every regular reader of The Golden Age knows that we are absolutely right in our stand on the use of aluminum cooking utensils and that The Scientific American, The Literary Digest, and most of the M.D.'s are dead wrong, and as immune to facts or to reason as the D.D.'s are on the “hell” question.”
2 de abril de 1930 · pp.434-437 · M. Q. · Golden Age Publishing Company, Brooklyn, New York
“If the irritation of a “chemical ferment” (such as a compound of aluminum) can, by any possibility, be considered a cause of cancer, eliminate all aluminum utensils from your kitchen.”
13 de abril de 1932 · p.442 · Dr. Chas. T. Betts · Golden Age Publishing Company, Brooklyn, New York
“Manufacturers of aluminum kitchenware continue to advertise that those opposed to the manufacture of aluminum cooking utensils are wrong, in spite of the fact that the reports show that such ware is used previous to 99 percent of all group poisoning cases.”
10 de abril de 1935 · p.440 · Golden Age Publishing Company, Brooklyn, New York
“The Golden Age does not care what kind of cooking utensils you use. It isn't even concerned if you insist upon using aluminum of any kind. That is your privilege and responsibility. But it will not cease to warn those who are interested in their health that aluminum is injurious to the health in numerous and various ways. There is no question about this whatever.”
15 de enero de 1936 · pp.227-228 · Golden Age Publishing Company, Brooklyn, New York
“In the past it has published numerous health articles from various sources where the writers seemed to know what they were talking about. These articles have not always been consistent with one another; which is not to be wondered at, because no two health experts agree.”
15 de enero de 1936 · pp.230-231 · Golden Age Publishing Company, Brooklyn, New York
“There is nothing in the scriptures of God's Word that forbids the taking of medicine that is known to be curative and not really injurious to the bodily health of Christians whose lives and bodies are truly devoted to Jehovah God and His service.”
15 de enero de 1963 · pp.37-39 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania
“Just how scientific psychoanalysis really is no one is certain. At best it leaves much to be desired. Its aim to help people achieve a normal capacity for living is not wrong, but some of its methods are.”
15 de abril de 1975 · pp.255-256 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania
“Whether a Christian will consult a psychiatrist, or any other doctor, is a matter for personal decision. ... So, while Jehovah's witnesses do not categorically rule out the possibility of treatment by doctors specializing in emotional or mental problems, if a Witness does consult such he should carefully scrutinize any treatment recommended.”
1978 · pp.41-42 · pars. 81-82 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania
“If we want Jehovah's friendship and protection we must break all connections and associations with spiritism in its many forms. That includes disposing of any objects that relate to spiritism. ... And God's Word shows that, just as a scarecrow cannot talk or walk or help or hurt anyone, the same is true of the images that men make and call sacred.”
8 de septiembre de 1986 · pp.6-10 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania
“Why, then, look upon patients who use these medications as weak-minded or as drug addicts? Antipsychotic drugs are not addictive, do not make patients high, and are not taken for pleasure.”
1993 · p.634 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania
“Later he served as editor of the magazines “The Golden Age” and “Consolation.” He remained firm in faith and loyal to Jehovah's organization right down till his death in 1951, at 81 years of age.”
1995 · pp.114-115 · par. 14 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania
“Even if you have not practiced spiritism, get rid of anything having spiritistic uses or overtones. This includes books, magazines, videos, posters, musical recordings, and objects used for spiritistic purposes. Also included are idols, amulets and other items worn for protection, and gifts received from practicers of spiritism.”
1 de mayo de 2003 · p.31 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania
“It is reported that some who suffer from schizophrenia, a disease often treatable with medication, hear voices or experience other symptoms that could appear to be something uncanny. ... while an individual who reports hearing voices or who has other disturbing sensations may not want to discount demon harassment, he should definitely be encouraged to consider investigating whether there is a physical explanation for what he is experiencing.”
marzo de 2005 · p.1 · pars. 1-3 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania
“On October 1, 1919, the first issue of the magazine The Golden Age was published. It proved to be a most valuable tool in the preaching work. ... From its beginning, this magazine has contributed mightily to the great witness that has been given since 1919.”
15 de abril de 2006 · p.31 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania
“It is imperative for such ones to get rid of all objects related to spiritism. This includes books, magazines, movies, material from electronic sources, music recordings that have spiritistic overtones, as well as amulets or other items worn for “protection” or linked to spiritistic practices.”
15 de julio de 2008 · European Food Safety Authority
“Aluminium in foods originates from its natural occurrence, from the use of food additives containing aluminium and from the presence of aluminium in food contact materials such as pots, pans and foil.”
2023 · pp.12-13 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania
“The Bible acknowledges that we may need to seek medical treatment. Many have found relief by learning what they can about their mental illness from reliable sources and by getting qualified professional help.”
2023 · pp.14-15 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania
“Because of his illness, your friend may say or do things that hurt you. He may cancel plans with you or become irritable. Be patient and understanding as you offer the support he needs.”