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 […]
Posts Tagged ‘medicine’
A few days ago I went to the “Mind , body , wallet” festival. Those of you who followed the YAS twitter updates would have known I saw quite a few interesting things, but now I will elaborate on my journey. I went with one of my sceptical minded friends and his partner. All three […]
In a recent episode of National Interest on ABC Radio National, host Peter Mares interviewed Mark Butler, the Federal Parliamentary Secretary for Health, and Dr Ken Harvey, Senior Research Fellow in the School of Public Health at La Trobe University, on the topic of the marketing of medicines in Australia.
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.
HOMOEOPATHIST, n. The humorist of the medical profession.
Physical exercise is proven to have great effects for the body and mind; everybody should have at least some form of physical exercise each day, and in doing so contribute a great amount of time and thought into the activities workings. Yet there is a point where this physical education can lead into spiritual woo; […]
In brief: the South Australian Medical Board has officially condemned ‘bogus practitioners’ for taking advantage of vulnerable people, after a baby was crushed to death by a massage table at the clinic of an alternative therapist, referred to as an unregistered massage therapist, who claimed the ability to shrink cancerous tumors with massage therapy. The article […]
It is often claimed by anti-vaccinationists that many, if not all, vaccines contain mercury, and this is a primary reason why vaccines are bad for you and your children. But is this actually true? Do vaccines really contain mercury? How much mercury? Which vaccines? How does this potential source of mercury exposure compare to other sources […]
