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Rhys Morgan On Pseudoscience And Crohn’s Disease

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 [...]

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Anti-Vaccine Group A Threat – #StopAVN Hits The Sydney Morning Herald

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 [...]

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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 Complaints Commission’s investigation [...]

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Meryl Dorey’s Disaster – AVN Returns To Perth (Minus An Audience)!

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 [...]

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Success! The Findings Of Australia’s Health Care Complaints Commission Against The Australian Vaccination Network And Meryl Dorey

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 [...]

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Live-Blogging The Telethon Institution Lecture On ‘Vaccination. The Experts. The Facts.’

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 [...]

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