health care

HCCC Reports On AVN’s Website Health Warning FAIL (Help Support Cosmos Magazine And #StopAVN!)

by podblack on July 26, 2010

I am holding a legally-purchased copy of Cosmos Magazine. Why? This magazine features an informative and detailed article about vaccination and I strongly urge people to support this publication – rather than illegally scan it and feature it on a website, as the Australian Vaccination Network has done on their site. The NSW Health Care [...]

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Acting Against The Anti-Vaccination Network – Complaint Lodged With NSW Health Care Complaints Commission (HCCC)

by podblack on August 3, 2009

Now being passed around on Twitter – new news about the AVN and Meryl Dorey being challenged for their posing as “health service providers” who “provid(e) health education services to the public” for the purposes of the Health Care Complaints Act 1993 (NSW). The document, which can be found as a pdf – ‘Complaint to [...]

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Medibank Private – Chinese Medicine As Emergency Care??

by podblack on June 25, 2008

I don’t know if you sometimes check out the Australian Skeptic website, but one of the features is the ‘Bent Spoon Award’. Presented annually to the perpetrator of the most preposterous piece of paranormal or pseudo-scientific piffle. I’ve written about the Awards before – here’s an entry from 2005: Nominee: Medibank Private Nominated by: Malcolm [...]

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In The Internet Age, But What Internet Knowledge?

by podblack on June 22, 2008

Dean Baird takes some very good photos, by the way. One of the Sunday paper presenters at TAM6 has a brand-new website up - ‘Tools For Skeptics’, “The purpose of the site is to assist the skeptic movement with better software tools“. For free? As an experienced site-creating consultant? Or based on assumptions about the internet [...]

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