by podblack on August 12, 2010
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 rather [...]
by podblack on July 27, 2010
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 [...]
by podblack on July 22, 2010
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 [...]
by podblack on July 12, 2010
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 Lateline [...]
by podblack on July 1, 2010
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 are [...]