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John O' Dowd is a retired Scottish scientist. He has worked in cancer and cardiovascular research, taught in universities, and worked for the UK government and several universities as a research manager. In these roles he discovered how both government and the academy had been captured and subverted by the Money Power, such that they now control the object and direction of academic research. They also control academic paradigms and teaching content, particularly in economics, political science and (especially) history, but increasingly also in the natural sciences and medicine. He gained a Business Master's degree to study the enemy. His father served in RAF bombers in WWII and was deeply affected by the experience. He rarely spoke of it. A friendship founded on their opposition to the Bush-Blair Iraq war has resulted in this collaboration with Dr MacGregor to explore how false history been used to obscure the origins and beneficiaries of two world wars. Jim Macgregor is a retired medical doctor. His father, who fought in the Second World War, was wounded in 1943 and evacuated to Erskine military hospital in Scotland. The hospital, situated in its own beautiful parkland grounds alongside the River Clyde near Glasgow, had been caring for badly wounded Scottish servicemen since the Battle of the Somme in 1916. His father was eventually allocated one of several specially adapted cottages built in the hospital's spacious grounds where Jim was born (1947) and raised. As a medical student at Glasgow University for six years, Jim did voluntary work in the hospital and came into close contact with numerous older wounded veterans still there from the 1914-18 war. Some of the men had severe facial/cranial injuries and been blinded, others had lost three or all four limbs and were never able to return home to lead an independent life. Through long discussions with these men, Jim developed a deep interest in the world wars and has spent a lifetime investigating and researching them. Taking early retirement from medicine in 2001 to concentrate full-time on this research, he has written numerous books and academic articles on the wars. They present well sourced evidence demonstrating how an elite and secretive Anglo-American cabal of politicians and City and Wall Street bankers was directly responsible for both the First and Second World Wars.
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