Meryl Dorey, President of the Australian Vaccination Network, recently published a media release in which she decries the media’s “witchhunt” of the AVN. Recent investigations of the AVN by multiple branches of the New South Wales government, the reports and results of those investigations, various media interviews with Meryl Dorey, quotes from Dorey, and other factual […]
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In a shocking turn of events, Meryl Dorey, President of the Australian Vaccination Network for almost 17 years, has stepped down from her position leading the prominent vaccine-awareness group. Citing reasons such as a lack of funds behind the AVN and the fact that her children have likely suffered due to her activism, Dorey broke the news […]
This year has been an excellent one for new books — some of my favorites published this year include:
The previous two parts of this series can be found here and here. I mentioned at the start of this series that there would be a ‘debunking’ section and a more personal section to the posts. I’ve now finished with the ‘debunking’ section, so I feel that it’s fair warning to remind people that what […]
The first part of this series can be found here. Next on the chopping block is Martypants. Martypants had the good courtesy to break his claims up into easy to rebut chunks, so I can cut right to the meat of what he says. It’s rather much nicer than having to deal with Tony’s obfuscating […]
There is very little in life that I get seriously riled up about. Frequently I find myself in frustrating situations, yet I generally manage to stay calm enough to state my case; if I encounter a black hole of stupidity I prefer to walk away and let it consume itself, rather than getting sucked in. […]
“Have you ever seen this symbol on the back of your food products?”


