My family still live in the Tweed Heads area where I spent my teens until I was old enough to escape to greener pastures. Although my Mother has some out there beliefs such as the reality of ghosts, psychics and varieties of magical thinking, thankfully our family are all vaccinated. However due to the ignorance […]
Posts Tagged ‘AVN’
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 […]
The State Library does not make any judgment about individuals, groups or organizations, unless there is a clear breach of law, policies or procedures, in which case we may act to exclude clients. I acknowledge your opposition to the Australian Vaccination Network but this does not provide grounds for the State Library to exclude this group […]
Richard Saunders let us use his FlipCam HD — win.
Somehow today, during a bout of frantic physics googling, I was led to a link for the AVN website. Thinking that I hadn’t self-flagellated yet today, I decided to pop in and see how old Meryl is doing. Right on their front page at the moment is a poll asking “What information were you given by […]
Ever noticed how the “proofs” offered up for positions of belief such as religion or pseudoscience always seem to rely heavily on the weight of personal anecdote? Funny that.
Taken directly from the AVN boards. Question on boards: My sister is pregnant and she called me this morning and said her OBGYN is STRONGLY recommending she get the swine flu shot! She lives in Gainesville, FL and her doc told her that pregnant women can die, etc. Could anyone give me any links or know of a […]
There was a very interesting piece on a recent episode of Life Matters on ABC Radio National — add it your podcast subscriptions if you haven’t already. The topic was the latest research of autism diagnosis, and there was a particularly interesting bit on the whole vaccination=autism farrago. More people are being diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders […]


