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Race, women and health · Claim record

In December 1925 the magazine acknowledged that some of its announcements had been 'inadvisable or premature', said 'We make no claim to infallibility... If we make mistakes forgive us', and undertook to publish no further articles that 'might seem to be hints to purchase'.

Claim ID claim-attitudes-ga-1925-policy-statementConcerns 2 December 1925Organisation's explanation
Organisation's explanation · 2 December 1925 Verified

In December 1925 the magazine acknowledged that some of its announcements had been 'inadvisable or premature', said 'We make no claim to infallibility... If we make mistakes forgive us', and undertook to publish no further articles that 'might seem to be hints to purchase'. The Golden Age, 2 December 1925

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The Golden Age, “The Mission of the Golden Age”

2 December 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.

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Confidence note. 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.

Scan provenance. 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'.

Corroborated by. src-hlth-ga-1925-0422-electronic-diagnosis

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.

Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-hlth-ga-1925-1202-mission-golden-age

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