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 […]
Archive for the ‘Rachael Dunlop’ Category
We’ve got a wonderful opportunity — and we need your help, skeptic, atheist, humanist and agnostic listeners! Earlier this year, Richard and Rachael presented at the University of Melbourne, thanks to the generous patronage of the Young Australian Skeptics and their first-class podcast ‘The Pseudo Scientists’. Now we’d like to go across country to help bring skepticism […]
Sydney Talks to Melbourne — A Night of Skepticism and Music! Details: 4:30 – 6:30pm Saturday 30th May Theater A, Elizabeth Murdoch University of Melbourne, Parkville Help spread the word by inviting friends on Facebook.
[The following has been cross-posted from my blog, Nullius in Verba.] It has been often claimed by anti-science pro-disease twits such as the “Australian Vaccination Network” and the likes of Jenny McCarthy that “parents aren’t getting the facts” or that “the information isn’t being made available” to parents regarding paediatric vaccinations. In response to them, […]
Recently, Australia’s Channel 7 Sunday Night programme aired a positive, well researched and scientifically based story on the dangers of not vaccinating. The report centred around the death of four week old Dana McCaffery (http://www.danamccaffery.com/) from whooping cough (also known by it’s bacterial name, pertussis). The tragedy was Dana was too young to be vaccinated, […]
Sick of laxatives or enemas? Want to try a completely natural product? Well, then ButtCandle™ might be perfect for you. Just stick this candle in your ass and light. It’s designed a bit differently than a regular candle, so that the flame will create a vacuum as it burns oxygen and suck the shit right […]
