Since I don't want to think about the riots in France and Belgium and the barbaric destruction and behaviour involved therein, I'm instead watching random interesting stuff on Youtube. I've for a long time considered the Jehova's Witness ban on blood transfusions to be one of the nuttier individual religious doctrines I know of. Well apparently Jehova's Witnesses are now allowed to accept blood transfusions, but only as long as it's not whole blood. Instead of being reduced to fractions of blood parts, they are now allowed to receive blood parts, i.e. platelets, white cells, red cells and plasma. It'll probably end up saving a good few lives. But mainly in the developed world. Outside of the west, where apparently majority of transfusions are still whole blood, it'll do little. (See also maternal mortality.) The video suggests this was in reaction to Japan being about to declare it religious child abuse, if a child is denied a needed transfusion for religious reasons. To some it seems an actual crisis of faith, to others just another indicator of Jehova's Wisdom. Because of course it is. About 37min. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDd2AGi7QRc