Here’s something recent from those bastions of intellectual excellence over at the Australian Vaccination Network mailing list. (Spelling and grammar mistakes are quoted verbatim, they’re not mine. :)
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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 your […]
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.
Write your complaint to 9am at Channel 10 here.
Write your complaint to the Victorian Health Services Commissioner here.
Many of you won’t know who Issac Golden is. Indeed, I hadn’t heard of him until he came up at a talk by Peter Bowditch, named as a minor player in the Australian Anti-vaccination movement. I was planning […]
It started after the second “Sunday Night” program dealing with Meryl Dorey and the AVN. I was appalled. How could anyone sit there and say that? How could anyone, in good conscience, sit there and tell a grieving mother whose child had died at the age of four weeks from whooping cough that her daughter’s […]
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 of […]
[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, I give […]
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 […]
This poster is a jab at the anti-vax crowd and also my grim opinion of the public’s strange love of pseudoscience: I believe that even in the face of a horde of slavering undead, foamy jaws agape with bloodlust, the alternative medicine crowd would still shirk the benefits of medical science.
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