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Pendant une dizaine d’années, L’Âge d’Or a fait campagne contre les ustensiles de cuisine en aluminium, a vanté un appareil de diagnostic déjà discrédité et s’en est pris à la médecine organisée. Cette page expose ce que la revue a imprimé, au nom de qui parlait chaque texte, et ce que l’organisation publie aujourd’hui sur ces sujets.
Dernière vérification le 20 septembre 2026
Qui parle, et pourquoi cela compte.L’Âge d’Or était une revue d’intérêt général. Une grande partie de ses textes sur la santé provenait de collaborateurs extérieurs identifiés par leur nom, et cette page fait figurer la signature en tête de chaque élément, car l’article d’un collaborateur et un éditorial anonyme disant « nous » sont deux choses différentes. La distinction importe ici plus qu’ailleurs : c’est l’erreur que ce site a lui-même commise et corrigée publiquement. Voir le journal des corrections.
La campagne contre l’aluminium, de 1925 à 1935
Par ordre chronologique, chaque élément accompagné de sa signature.
En septembre 1925, The Golden Age disait à ses lecteurs que 'Heavy cast aluminum cooking utensils are the best', dans un article diététique signé C. E. Stewart et portant la mention '[Broadcast from WBBR by the writer.]' — WBBR étant la station de radio de la Watch Tower Society elle-même. Source: The Golden Age, 9 septembre 1925
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9 septembre 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.
Note de provenance et de vérification for The Golden Age, The Right Foods
Note sur la fiabilité.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.
Provenance de la numérisation.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.
Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source.src-hlth-ga-1925-0909-right-foods
En l'espace de quatre ans, le même magazine diffusait le conseil inverse : à partir de février 1929 au moins, The Golden Age a mené campagne contre les ustensiles de cuisine en aluminium, consacrant son article principal du 20 février 1929 au Dr C. T. Betts, qui écrivait que l'aluminium '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 février 1929Source: The Golden Age, 9 septembre 1925
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20 février 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'.
Note de provenance et de vérification for The Golden Age, Aluminum in Soil, Vegetation, Animals, Humans
Note sur la fiabilité.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'.
Provenance de la numérisation.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.
Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source.src-hlth-ga-1929-0220-betts-aluminum-soil
Publication primaire des Témoins de JéhovahVérifié
9 septembre 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.
Note de provenance et de vérification for The Golden Age, The Right Foods
Note sur la fiabilité.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.
Provenance de la numérisation.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.
Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source.src-hlth-ga-1925-0909-right-foods
Le magazine a consacré la totalité de son article principal du 17 avril 1929 — dix pages — à des règles diététiques compilées par un diététicien naturopathe, W. E. Reynolds, de la Rocine School, règles qui disaient aux lecteurs que 'If you boil vegetables in aluminum ware you always produce a poison' et que des aliments laissés dans l'aluminium puis réchauffés pouvaient produire un poison 'often strong enough to cause serious illness and sometimes death'. Source: The Golden Age, 17 avril 1929
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17 avril 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'.
Note de provenance et de vérification for The Golden Age, Good Health Dietetic Rules
Note sur la fiabilité.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.
Provenance de la numérisation.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.
Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source.src-hlth-ga-1929-0417-dietetic-rules
Le magazine a associé à plusieurs reprises les ustensiles de cuisine en aluminium au cancer, publiant l'affirmation d'un contributeur qui disait avoir trouvé 'this aluminum poison at the point of cancer in every case' chez plus d'une centaine de malades du cancer, et conseillant en 1930 à ses lecteurs : 'eliminate all aluminum utensils from your kitchen'. Source: The Golden Age, 3 avril 1929Source: The Golden Age, 2 avril 1930Source: The Golden Age, 17 avril 1929
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3 avril 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'.
Note de provenance et de vérification for The Golden Age, Some Unusual Sources and Results of Aluminum Poisoning
Note sur la fiabilité.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.
Provenance de la numérisation.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'.
Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source.src-hlth-ga-1929-0403-schmidt-aluminum
Publication primaire des Témoins de JéhovahVérifié
2 avril 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'.
Note de provenance et de vérification for The Golden Age, A Cure for Cancer
Note sur la fiabilité.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.
Provenance de la numérisation.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'.
Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source.src-hlth-ga-1930-0402-cure-for-cancer
Publication primaire des Témoins de JéhovahVérifié
17 avril 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'.
Note de provenance et de vérification for The Golden Age, Good Health Dietetic Rules
Note sur la fiabilité.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.
Provenance de la numérisation.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.
Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source.src-hlth-ga-1929-0417-dietetic-rules
La campagne ne se limitait pas aux articles de contributeurs. Le 2 avril 1930, un texte éditorial non signé, écrit au nom du magazine lui-même, disait 'we are absolutely right in our stand on the use of aluminum cooking utensils', et en avril 1935 un texte non signé paraissant sous la rubrique permanente 'Poisoning Department' disait que The Golden Age '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 avril 1930Source: The Golden Age, 10 avril 1935
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2 avril 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.
Note de provenance et de vérification for The Golden Age, The Only Explanation
Note sur la fiabilité.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'.
Provenance de la numérisation.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'.
Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source.src-hlth-ga-1930-0402-only-explanation
Publication primaire des Témoins de JéhovahVérifié
10 avril 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.
Note de provenance et de vérification for The Golden Age, Not Selling Cooking Utensils
Note sur la fiabilité.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.
Provenance de la numérisation.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).
Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source.src-hlth-ga-1935-0410-not-selling-utensils
Le 2 avril 1930, un texte éditorial non signé déclarait 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 avril 1930
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2 avril 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.
Note de provenance et de vérification for The Golden Age, The Only Explanation
Note sur la fiabilité.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'.
Provenance de la numérisation.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'.
Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source.src-hlth-ga-1930-0402-only-explanation
La campagne se poursuivait encore en avril 1935, lorsque le magazine a répondu à une annonce indiquant qu'un vendeur d'ustensiles de cuisine s'était engagé, dans le cadre d'une stipulation de la Federal Trade Commission des États-Unis, à cesser d'affirmer que les ustensiles en aluminium provoquent le cancer, en disant qu'il '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 avril 1935
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10 avril 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.
Note de provenance et de vérification for The Golden Age, Not Selling Cooking Utensils
Note sur la fiabilité.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.
Provenance de la numérisation.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).
Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source.src-hlth-ga-1935-0410-not-selling-utensils
20 février 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'.
Note de provenance et de vérification for The Golden Age, Aluminum in Soil, Vegetation, Animals, Humans
Note sur la fiabilité.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'.
Provenance de la numérisation.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.
Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source.src-hlth-ga-1929-0220-betts-aluminum-soil
Publication primaire des Témoins de JéhovahVérifié
3 avril 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'.
Note de provenance et de vérification for The Golden Age, Some Unusual Sources and Results of Aluminum Poisoning
Note sur la fiabilité.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.
Provenance de la numérisation.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'.
Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source.src-hlth-ga-1929-0403-schmidt-aluminum
Publication primaire des Témoins de JéhovahVérifié
17 avril 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'.
Note de provenance et de vérification for The Golden Age, Good Health Dietetic Rules
Note sur la fiabilité.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.
Provenance de la numérisation.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.
Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source.src-hlth-ga-1929-0417-dietetic-rules
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21 août 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.
Note de provenance et de vérification for The Golden Age, Do Aluminum Kitchen Utensils Have “A Clean Bill of Health”?
Note sur la fiabilité.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.
Provenance de la numérisation.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.
Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source.src-hlth-ga-1929-0821-betts-clean-bill
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2 avril 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.
Note de provenance et de vérification for The Golden Age, The Only Explanation
Note sur la fiabilité.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'.
Provenance de la numérisation.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'.
Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source.src-hlth-ga-1930-0402-only-explanation
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13 avril 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.
Note de provenance et de vérification for The Golden Age, Truth Sometimes Comes to the Surface Quickly
Note sur la fiabilité.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.
Provenance de la numérisation.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 avril 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.
Note de provenance et de vérification for The Golden Age, Not Selling Cooking Utensils
Note sur la fiabilité.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.
Provenance de la numérisation.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).
Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source.src-hlth-ga-1935-0410-not-selling-utensils
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15 janvier 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'.
Note de provenance et de vérification for The Golden Age, Some Ideas on Health
Note sur la fiabilité.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.
Provenance de la numérisation.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.
Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source.src-hlth-ga-1936-0115-some-ideas-health
Le magazine avait connaissance du consensus médical contraire et le rejetait : en août 1929, il a publié une réfutation relevant que l'American Medical Association, le United States Public Health Service et The Lancet avaient donné aux ustensiles de cuisine en aluminium 'a clean bill of health'. Source: The Golden Age, 21 août 1929
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21 août 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.
Note de provenance et de vérification for The Golden Age, Do Aluminum Kitchen Utensils Have “A Clean Bill of Health”?
Note sur la fiabilité.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.
Provenance de la numérisation.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.
Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source.src-hlth-ga-1929-0821-betts-clean-bill
Aucune rétractation de la campagne contre l'aluminium n'a été trouvée. La déclaration la plus proche qui ait été repérée est un bilan du 15 janvier 1936 dans lequel le magazine disait seulement qu'il avait publié des articles de santé 'from various sources' qui 'have not always been consistent with one another', qu'il n'avait 'no ambition to be known as a health magazine' et qu'il ne revendiquait 'no monopoly of wisdom on the subject'. Source: The Golden Age, 15 janvier 1936
Position de l’organisation ou explication ultérieure : L'article de 1936 ne retirait rien de précis. Dans le même texte, le magazine répétait que le poisson de Jésus 'certainly was not fried in an aluminum frying pan' et qu'il était '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 janvier 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'.
Note de provenance et de vérification for The Golden Age, Some Ideas on Health
Note sur la fiabilité.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.
Provenance de la numérisation.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.
Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source.src-hlth-ga-1936-0115-some-ideas-health
Par souci d’exhaustivité, et parce que ce site n’exagère pas : les ustensiles de cuisine en aluminium apportent effectivement une part de l’aluminium alimentaire. Ce n’est pas ce qu’affirmait la revue, et l’affirmation ci-dessous expose la différence.
Les ustensiles de cuisine en aluminium contribuent bien pour une part à l'aluminium alimentaire — l'Autorité européenne de sécurité des aliments cite 'food contact materials such as pots, pans and foil' parmi les sources, aux côtés de la présence naturelle et des additifs alimentaires — et elle désigne les céréales et les produits céréaliers, les légumes et les boissons, et non les ustensiles, comme les principaux contributeurs alimentaires. Rien de ce qui a été trouvé dans cette recherche n'étaye les affirmations du magazine selon lesquelles cuisiner dans l'aluminium provoque le cancer ou un empoisonnement aigu. Source: European Food Safety Authority, 15 juillet 2008Source: The Golden Age, 10 avril 1935
“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.
Note de provenance et de vérification for European Food Safety Authority, EFSA advises on the safety of aluminium in food
Note sur la fiabilité.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.
Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source.src-hlth-efsa-2008-aluminium
Publication primaire des Témoins de JéhovahVérifié
10 avril 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.
Note de provenance et de vérification for The Golden Age, Not Selling Cooking Utensils
Note sur la fiabilité.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.
Provenance de la numérisation.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).
Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source.src-hlth-ga-1935-0410-not-selling-utensils
En avril 1925, The Golden Age a consacré son article principal à un appareil appelé Electronic Radio Biola, censé diagnostiquer et traiter les maladies automatiquement par vibration radio, avec un diagnostic qui 'is 100 percent correct', et a imprimé au-dessus une note de la rédaction indiquant que le magazine 'has fullest confidence in any representations that may be made by Doctor Gamble'. Source: The Golden Age, 22 avril 1925
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22 avril 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'.
Note de provenance et de vérification for The Golden Age, Automatic Electronic Diagnosis
Note sur la fiabilité.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.
Provenance de la numérisation.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.
Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source.src-hlth-ga-1925-0422-electronic-diagnosis
septembre 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.
Note de provenance et de vérification for Scientific American, Our Abrams Verdict
Note sur la fiabilité.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 février 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'.
Note de provenance et de vérification for Quackwatch, Radionics and Albert Abrams, M.D.
Note sur la fiabilité.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 avril 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'.
Note de provenance et de vérification for The Golden Age, Automatic Electronic Diagnosis
Note sur la fiabilité.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.
Provenance de la numérisation.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.
Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source.src-hlth-ga-1925-0422-electronic-diagnosis
Explication de l’organisation · 2 décembre 1925Vérifié
En décembre 1925, le magazine a reconnu que certaines de ses annonces avaient été 'inadvisable or premature', a déclaré : 'We make no claim to infallibility... If we make mistakes forgive us', et s'est engagé à ne plus publier d'articles qui 'might seem to be hints to purchase'. Source: The Golden Age, 2 décembre 1925
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2 décembre 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.
Note de provenance et de vérification for The Golden Age, The Mission of the Golden Age
Note sur la fiabilité.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.
Provenance de la numérisation.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.
Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source.src-hlth-ga-1925-1202-mission-golden-age
2 décembre 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.
Note de provenance et de vérification for The Golden Age, The Mission of the Golden Age
Note sur la fiabilité.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.
Provenance de la numérisation.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.
Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source.src-hlth-ga-1925-1202-mission-golden-age
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21 août 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.
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Note sur la fiabilité.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.
Provenance de la numérisation.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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13 avril 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.
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Note sur la fiabilité.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.
Provenance de la numérisation.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 avril 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.
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Note sur la fiabilité.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.
Provenance de la numérisation.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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En avril 1930, le magazine a publié un article relatant trois cas de cancer qui auraient été guéris par un régime de jus de raisin ou d'autres jus de fruits accompagné d'un lavement quotidien à l'eau tiède ; pour les deux premiers cas, l'article indique que le traitement a duré 'between thirty-five and forty days'. Source: The Golden Age, 2 avril 1930
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2 avril 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'.
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Note sur la fiabilité.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.
Provenance de la numérisation.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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En 1929, The Golden Age a publié, dans un texte non signé, que la voie de la santé ne passait 'not by the route of drugs and serums' et que 'Just now the M.D.'s are drunk with power'. Source: The Golden Age, 6 février 1929
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6 février 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.'
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Note sur la fiabilité.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.
Provenance de la numérisation.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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Les attaques les plus virulentes du magazine contre la médecine en tant que profession étaient des textes signés par des auteurs extérieurs : un militant de l'hygiénisme naturel écrivait que 'the practice of medicine in all its branches is the biggest cause of disease, degeneracy and death in modern life', et le rédacteur en chef d'un magazine américain de soins sans médicaments écrivait que la médecine 'is not founded on science. It is founded on superstition.' Source: The Golden Age, 17 avril 1929Source: The Golden Age, 10 juillet 1929
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17 avril 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'.
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Note sur la fiabilité.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.
Provenance de la numérisation.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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10 juillet 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.
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Note sur la fiabilité.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.
Provenance de la numérisation.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.
Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source.src-hlth-ga-1929-0710-dying-institution
Le tableau n’est pas à sens unique, et cette page serait fautive si elle laissait entendre le contraire. La revue a publié des désaccords avec sa propre ligne, et elle n’a pas enseigné que les soins médicaux étaient interdits.
Le magazine a aussi publié des avis contraires à sa propre ligne en matière de santé. En décembre 1929, il a publié un article objectant que 'the general impression conveyed through your columns has been highly derogatory to the medical profession', défendant l'ablation des amygdales malades et soutenant que les médecins n'étaient pas moins honnêtes que quiconque. Source: The Golden Age, 11 décembre 1929
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11 décembre 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'.
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Note sur la fiabilité.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.
Provenance de la numérisation.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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Malgré son hostilité envers la médecine organisée, le magazine n'enseignait pas que la médecine était interdite : en janvier 1936, il déclarait : 'There is nothing in the scriptures of God's Word that forbids the taking of medicine that is known to be curative', et il rejetait la guérison par la foi. Source: The Golden Age, 15 janvier 1936
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15 janvier 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.
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Note sur la fiabilité.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.
Provenance de la numérisation.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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C’est un sujet sur lequel la position publiée a beaucoup évolué, et pour qui lit aujourd’hui, les textes les plus récents sont les plus importants des deux.
La position actuellement publiée par l'organisation est favorable aux soins professionnels : La Tour de Garde n° 1 de 2023, un numéro consacré à la santé mentale, déclare que 'The Bible acknowledges that we may need to seek medical treatment' et 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.
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Note sur la fiabilité.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.
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Note sur la fiabilité.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.
En janvier 1963, La Tour de Garde disait à ses lecteurs que 'Just how scientific psychoanalysis really is no one is certain', que 'At best it leaves much to be desired', et citait Freud aux côtés de Darwin, de Marx et des tenants de la haute critique comme ayant 'played a sinister role in destroying the guiding influence of the Bible for many'. Source: The Watchtower, 15 janvier 1963
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15 janvier 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'.
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Note sur la fiabilité.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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Une réponse de la rubrique Questions des lecteurs du 15 avril 1975 déclarait que consulter un psychiatre 'is a matter for personal decision', mais demandait, à propos des croyances des psychiatres : 'Would you want to mold your life according to the thinking of men who view matters in this manner?', conseillait que 'if a Witness does consult such he should carefully scrutinize any treatment recommended', et orientait les lecteurs éprouvant des 'feelings of hostility or despondency' vers les anciens de la congrégation, en application de Jacques 5:13-16. Source: The Watchtower, 15 avril 1975
Position de l’organisation ou explication ultérieure : La même réponse précisait que les Témoins de Jéhovah 'do not categorically rule out the possibility of treatment by doctors specializing in emotional or mental problems' et que 'the final decision is his own'.
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15 avril 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'.
Note de provenance et de vérification for The Watchtower, Questions From Readers
Note sur la fiabilité.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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Dès septembre 1986, Réveillez-vous ! traitait la maladie mentale comme une maladie de la chimie du cerveau, décrivant les médicaments antipsychotiques comme un traitement efficace et demandant : 'Why, then, look upon patients who use these medications as weak-minded or as drug addicts?' Source: Awake!, 8 septembre 1986
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8 septembre 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.
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Note sur la fiabilité.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).
Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source.src-hlth-g-1986-0908-mental-illness-cure
En mai 2003, La Tour de Garde a répondu 'No' à la question de savoir si un chrétien qui entend des voix est nécessairement victime d'une attaque démoniaque, a relevé que la schizophrénie est 'a disease often treatable with medication', et a déclaré 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 mai 2003
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1 mai 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!
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Note sur la fiabilité.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.
Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source.src-hlth-w-2003-0501-qfr-hearing-voices
Les publications des Témoins conseillent effectivement de détruire les biens liés au spiritisme. Le livre d'étude de 1995 La connaissance qui mène à la vie éternelle disait aux lecteurs de 'get rid of anything having spiritistic uses or overtones', y compris les 'gifts received from practicers of spiritism', et une réponse de la rubrique Questions des lecteurs d'avril 2006 déclarait qu'il est 'imperative' pour quiconque est harcelé par les démons 'to get rid of all objects related to spiritism'. Source: Knowledge That Leads to Everlasting Life, 1995Source: The Watchtower, 15 avril 2006Source: Unseen Spirits—Do They Help Us? Or Do They Harm Us? (brochure), 1978
Position de l’organisation ou explication ultérieure : La brochure de 1978 Unseen Spirits donne le même conseil tout en soutenant, à partir de Jérémie 10:2-5 et d'Isaïe 44:14-20, que de tels objets n'ont par eux-mêmes aucun pouvoir et qu'il ne faut pas les craindre : '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.
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Note sur la fiabilité.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 avril 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.
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Note sur la fiabilité.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.
Note de provenance et de vérification for Unseen Spirits—Do They Help Us? Or Do They Harm Us? (brochure), With Full Faith Take Action Now
Note sur la fiabilité.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.
Note de provenance et de vérification for Knowledge That Leads to Everlasting Life, Chapter 12: Resist Wicked Spirit Forces
Note sur la fiabilité.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.
Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source.src-hlth-kl-1995-ch12-get-rid
Publication primaire des Témoins de JéhovahVérifié
15 avril 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.
Note de provenance et de vérification for The Watchtower, Questions From Readers
Note sur la fiabilité.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.
Note de provenance et de vérification for Unseen Spirits—Do They Help Us? Or Do They Harm Us? (brochure), With Full Faith Take Action Now
Note sur la fiabilité.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.
Note de provenance et de vérification for Watch Tower Publications Index 1930-1985, Demonism
Note sur la fiabilité.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.
Le récit que l'organisation publie aujourd'hui au sujet du périodique qui a diffusé ces textes ne dit rien de son contenu en matière de santé : Notre ministère du Royaume de mars 2005 indique que le premier numéro de L'Âge d'Or 'proved to be a most valuable tool in the preaching work', et dit du périodique sous sa forme actuelle, Réveillez-vous !, que 'From its beginning, this magazine has contributed mightily to the great witness that has been given since 1919'. Source: Our Kingdom Ministry, mars 2005Source: Jehovah's Witnesses—Proclaimers of God's Kingdom, 1993
Position de l’organisation ou explication ultérieure : L'histoire publiée par l'organisation elle-même, Les Témoins de Jéhovah : Prédicateurs du Royaume de Dieu (1993), présente Clayton J. Woodworth comme rédacteur en chef de L'Âge d'Or et de Consolation et indique qu'il 'remained firm in faith and loyal to Jehovah's organization' jusqu'à sa mort en 1951 ; son index lui consacre quatre sous-entrées, dont aucune ne porte sur le contenu du périodique en matière de santé.
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mars 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.
Note de provenance et de vérification for Our Kingdom Ministry, More Emphasis on the Bible!
Note sur la fiabilité.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.
Note de provenance et de vérification for Jehovah's Witnesses—Proclaimers of God's Kingdom, Chapter 28: Testings and Siftings From Within (box, 'C. J. Woodworth')
Note sur la fiabilité.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.
Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source.src-hlth-jv-1993-woodworth
Trois citations fréquemment répétées dans ce domaine sont inexactes. Le passage 'Avoid serum inoculations and vaccinations, as they pollute the blood stream with their filthy pus' se trouve à la page 107 de The Golden Age du 13 novembre 1929, et non du 12 novembre ; le titre courant de cette page porte 'NOVEMBER 13, 1929'. Ce n'est pas non plus une déclaration éditoriale : c'est une ligne d'une liste de règles d'hygiène à l'intérieur d'un article signé, 'The Way to Better Health', de H. W. Newcomb, qui commence à la page 106. Et l'affirmation selon laquelle la médecine 'is not founded on science' provient d'un article signé par le rédacteur en chef d'un magazine de santé extérieur, et non des rédacteurs de la Watch Tower Society elle-même. Source: The Golden Age, 13 novembre 1929Source: The Golden Age, 10 juillet 1929Source: JWfacts.com, mars 2026 (unverified)
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Publication primaire des Témoins de JéhovahVérifié
13 novembre 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.
Note de provenance et de vérification for The Golden Age, Health
Note sur la fiabilité.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.
Provenance de la numérisation.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.
Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source.src-g-1929-1113-vaccination-filthy-pus
Publication primaire des Témoins de JéhovahVérifié
10 juillet 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.
Note de provenance et de vérification for The Golden Age, A Dying Institution
Note sur la fiabilité.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.
Provenance de la numérisation.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.
Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source.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.
Note de provenance et de vérification for JWfacts.com, Dangerous Medical Advice and Changes
Note sur la fiabilité.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.
Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source.src-hlth-jwfacts-medical
Les articles de santé de The Golden Age recoupent trois sujets que ce site documente déjà : la vaccination, le sang et les transplantations d'organes. Les deux campagnes ont été menées dans les mêmes numéros, et parfois dans la même liste d'instructions : la page 107 du numéro du 13 novembre 1929, dans un article signé intitulé 'The Way to Better Health By H. W. Newcomb', dit aux lecteurs : 'Avoid the use of aluminum cooking utensils and alum baking powders' et, quatre lignes plus bas dans la colonne : 'Avoid serum inoculations and vaccinations'. Source: The Golden Age, 13 novembre 1929Source: The Golden Age, 17 avril 1929Source: The Golden Age, 6 février 1929Source: The Golden Age, 15 janvier 1936
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Publication primaire des Témoins de JéhovahVérifié
13 novembre 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.
Note de provenance et de vérification for The Golden Age, Health
Note sur la fiabilité.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.
Provenance de la numérisation.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.
Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source.src-g-1929-1113-vaccination-filthy-pus
Publication primaire des Témoins de JéhovahVérifié
17 avril 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'.
Note de provenance et de vérification for The Golden Age, Death by the Serum Route
Note sur la fiabilité.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.
Provenance de la numérisation.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.
Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source.src-hlth-ga-1929-0417-shelton-serum-route
Publication primaire des Témoins de JéhovahVérifié
6 février 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.'
Note de provenance et de vérification for The Golden Age, If the People Ever Wake Up
Note sur la fiabilité.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.
Provenance de la numérisation.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.
Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source.src-hlth-ga-1929-0206-if-people-wake-up
Publication primaire des Témoins de JéhovahVérifié
15 janvier 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'.
Note de provenance et de vérification for The Golden Age, Some Ideas on Health
Note sur la fiabilité.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.
Provenance de la numérisation.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.
Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source.src-hlth-ga-1936-0115-some-ideas-health
22 avril 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 décembre 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 février 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 février 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 avril 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 avril 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 juillet 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 août 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 décembre 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 avril 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 avril 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 avril 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 avril 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 janvier 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 janvier 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 janvier 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 avril 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 septembre 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 mai 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.”
mars 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 avril 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.”
“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.”
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