Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
This is Rhys – he’s 15 years old and has Crohn’s disease. “It appears a great number of the people who make up Crohn’s forum are in love with so called alternative medicines.” This short ‘tweet-vid’ discusses what happened to him on a Crohn‘s Disease forum board and attitudes he’s come across (he’s also a [...]
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Top-rating story this morning, from the Sydney Morning Herald – a major newspaper in NSW – about the AVN’s failure to comply with the HCCC. Its investigation was sparked by two complaints, one from Toni and David McCaffery, whose four-week-old daughter Dana died from whooping cough last year. The couple, from Lennox Head, allege they [...]
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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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Head to the Australian Skeptics website for a news item on the event! I would like to think that there’s several factors that contributed to the sparse attendance of Meryl Dorey and Judy Wilyman’s second lecture at the State Library of Western Australia (called the Alexander Library) in central Perth on Tuesday, 20th July. There [...]
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Breaking news! The complaint to the NSW State Government-funded Health Care Complaints commission (HCCC) has been successfully upheld! Now the AVN has to feature disclaimers on their website. Best of all, a well-regarded national current affairs program is going to investigate the group and show it on TV tonight! It’s only just showing on ABC1′s [...]
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I’m in the main hall of the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research (TICHR), a large indoor venue that is part of an ongoing lecture series. Somewhere behind me in the audience is at least one other member of the Perth Skeptics (hello Grendels!). There is a LOT of information being given tonight, and these [...]
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I’ve blogged briefly about this previously – particularly how Peter Dingle had a goal to publish a book about how he healed his wife through homeopathy? Perth Now: Nurse tells how cancer patient Penelope Dingle was ‘writhing in pain’ In an inquest at the Perth Coroner’s Court, registered nurse and family friend Deborah Combes said [...]
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Hat-tip to Dr Petra Boynton: For the first time ever, a commercial for unplanned pregnancy and abortion advisory services will be aired on British television. The commercial, to be screened first on Channel 4 at 10.10pm on 24th May 2010, is part of a new campaign by Marie Stopes International, the UKs leading provider of [...]
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