Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
Here it is in the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper – Copyright breaches land group in trouble: An anti-vaccination group is under fire for allegedly breaching copyright laws by selling newspaper and medical journal articles online without permission from the authors. The Australian Vaccination Network, which was the subject of a public warning issued by the [...]
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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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By the way — if you know anyone attending the Meryl Dorey Talk At The Perth Library — send them the link to Vaccination Facts. This was created earlier in the year (New Website For Those Attending The Perth AVN Lecture) in order to cater for parents who have questions regarding the ‘truths’ touted by [...]
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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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Confused by the “vaccination debate?” Are you looking for information you can trust? The Telethon Institute for Child Health Research is hosting a free public information seminar on the latest scientific evidence surrounding childhood vaccination. It will be an opportunity to hear from and ask questions of the State’s leading experts in immunology, infectious diseases [...]
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Firstly – sorry if I’m not keeping things updated, there are serious internet issues I’m having which limit my access. If you’ve recently emailed or ‘Tweeted’ me or even got in touch via Facebook, I will respond later when I can! Today, in my classroom, I told my students what the Australian Vaccination Network was, [...]
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Hi all, The internet access here is sketchy and I have eight pages of typed transcript already. So, what I’ll post here is the summary from the end of the talk by Judy Wilyman, PhD Candidate Murdoch University. Big, big thanks to Dan, who got me in here despite there being a big asterisk next [...]
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