Australian Vaccination Network
The danger of science denial: Michael Specter
From TED ©:
Vaccine-autism claims, “Frankenfood” bans, the herbal cure craze: All point to the public’s growing fear (and, often, outright denial) of science and reason, says Michael Specter. He warns the trend spells disaster for human progress.
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Homeopaths Ignore Therapeutic Goods Administration
From ABC Lateline:
Homeopaths ignore TGA over false advertising
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YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trIf4l2d-DM
Richard Dawkins vs Homeopathy
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYqQ_n2vOOI
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Herbal Remedies or Herbal Rip Off?
From ABC 7:30 Report, Feb. 24th, 2010:
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfhJm6NVDFw
Herbal remedies are not regulated nor tested properly prior to marketing. No quality control exists to prevent dose mismanagement or to identify adulteration with contaminants and poisons.
25% of herbs originating from one Asian source contain Western Medications. This leads to dangerous allergic reactions, cross reaction, herb/drug interactions and a plethora of side effects.
Herbal remedies also contain mercury, arsenic and lead. Arsenic is a metalloid. Lead & mercury are metals. Lead poisoning is devastating. The mercury is not monitored, measured or controlled – nor does it serve any purpose: it is a Contaminant.
More so, it is likely to be Elemental Mercury – not methyl mercury as found in biomass nor ethyl mercury used in the clinical and adultery free preservative Thimerosal. Thimerosal is used as a preservative in many medicinal products, including some vaccination preparations.
This makes a predictable mockery of anti-vaccination claims that vaccines “cause autism” due to containing Elemental Mercury, such that vaccine preventable diseases may be “managed” with herbs. This sad revelation is made worse in that lead poisoning leads to many of the horrors blamed on vaccines by pro-herbal antivaccination lobbyists: convulsions, encephalopathy, nerve damage, CNS developmental problems, etc, etc.
http://www.lead.org.au/fs/fst7.html
These herbal remedies have high potential for Adverse Reactions, Drug Interactions and Side Effects – certain to be misdiagnosed by naturopaths who protect vested interests and will prescribe… Herbs.
In the case of imagined “vaccine dangers” or “vaccine reactions” it is known that pure guesswork [and blame] is the primary variable. incredibly these “reactions” are then treated with demonstrably contaminated herbs – actually causing or exacerbating any health problems.
Finally, Panic Merchants love to exaggerate toxicity reports in order to mount arguments peculiar to their own ideology – usually blaming the presence of one drug for multiple deaths.
It is thus over-due that the TGA vigorously examine the toxicity reports post autopsy for herbal/drug interactions and also for cumulative adulterant poisoning leading to neurological pathology.
More so, strict and exact standards must be enforced by the TGA demanding alternative preparations meet safety standards *before* being marketed to an ignorant and unsuspecting, yet trusting public. Indeed claimed efficacy must be demonstrated as verifiable and falsifiable. Immediate penalties for the unqualified and ideologically focused charlatans who profit from marketing not medicine, are long, long overdue.
See:
University of Adelaide forensic pathologist Roger Byard’s media release:
http://bit.ly/ce3Bnh
Economics of Snakeoil by Steve Novella:
http://bit.ly/b7eA5t
Homeopathy: useless & unethical:
http://bit.ly/cd0WtI
Australian Skeptics expect better from our Pharmacists:
http://bit.ly/cPHf7e
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Australian Vaccination Network Audited
Thanks to the dedication and skill of volunteers, Conspiracy Theorist Meryl Dorey’s lethal campaign to sabotage preventative medicine and particularly vaccination is seemingly wading through mud.
Stop The Australian Vaccination Network has overseen a vigorous complaint process on the ground whilst fighting the misinformative and libellous Enemies of Reason online. Developments such as the smash and grab escape by AVN President, Meryl Dorey, would suggest as annoying as they are, the ignorant sods who refuse to vaccinate have predictably been ripped off.
Read up on Dorey’s financial scamming at Vaccine Awareness and Information Service. Recent Posts in the right side bar provides insight and accuracy unavailable anywhere else.
© Mel Mcmillan, The Northern Star
THE BANGALOW-BASED Australian Vaccination Network will undergo a full audit by the NSW Office of Liquor, Gaming and Racing following complaints it has been unlawfully fundraising.
Charity inspectors are expected to soon visit the organisation’s office to examine records and interview staff to check if it has been operating in breach of the Charitable Fundraising Act 1991.
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The audit will also attempt to determine whether the network has conducted unlawful fundraising during a period it was without a fundraising authority, between July 2, 2007 and June 2, 2009.
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The complaint against the network was lodged by a group known as Stop the AVN, which was formed after the death of Lennox Head baby Dana McCaffery from whooping cough last year.
The group blames the network for low-immunisation rates and high levels of whooping cough in the Northern Rivers. Mrs Dorey described the group as a ‘thorn in the AVN’s side’.
On July 14 last year, Stop the AVN member, Ken McLeod, lodged a complaint with the Health Care Complaints Commission about the network and Mrs Dorey, on the basis she was assuming the role of a health educator and advisor, but was in breach of the code of practice for health providers by disseminating wrong information.
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Mr McLeod is also threatening Mrs Dorey with legal action after she published statements about him online that he alleges were defamatory. The group has also lodged a complaint with the Registry of Cooperatives and Associations alleging the network has operated in breach of the law.
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Full story: http://www.northernstar.com.au/story/2010/02/11/anti-immunisers-needled/
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