I proceed with this blog with great trepidation.
I am alarmed at the amount and nature of the advertising done in the past month by St. Jude hospital. St. Jude is in Memphis.
I worked with the Las Vegas Mafia in the late 1970s on a possible professional bingo game. I learned two things from the Mafia man I worked with. The first is that the Mafia will not harm you if you are honest and cooperative with them, second they laundered some of their money through St. Jude's hospital.
I have no idea what the relationship was nor whether it still exists. I don't recognize a single name on the various boards of St. Jude but that is not a reliable measure of any connection to or lack of connection to the Las Vegas Mafia.
What disturbs me most about the St. Jude TV advertising is the clear suggestion that St. Jude played a major role in finding a successful treatment for acute childhood leukemia (ALL).
The discovery of a successful treatment occurred over several decades and in many different institutions. The Nobel Prize went to two physiologists who did their work at Canberra (one of whom is now at St. Jude) in the 70s. Much of the transplant work that created the medical success was done at Stanford Univ. Hospital and in the VA system.
Frankly I am uncomfortable with what I know about St. Jude and their heavy TV fund raising.
I am alarmed at the amount and nature of the advertising done in the past month by St. Jude hospital. St. Jude is in Memphis.
I have no idea what the relationship was nor whether it still exists. I don't recognize a single name on the various boards of St. Jude but that is not a reliable measure of any connection to or lack of connection to the Las Vegas Mafia.
What disturbs me most about the St. Jude TV advertising is the clear suggestion that St. Jude played a major role in finding a successful treatment for acute childhood leukemia (ALL).
The discovery of a successful treatment occurred over several decades and in many different institutions. The Nobel Prize went to two physiologists who did their work at Canberra (one of whom is now at St. Jude) in the 70s. Much of the transplant work that created the medical success was done at Stanford Univ. Hospital and in the VA system.
Frankly I am uncomfortable with what I know about St. Jude and their heavy TV fund raising.