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Mistakes, traps, ethics, and integrity - Greg Beattie The federal election falls at the end of this week. While the economy, asylum seekers, and education have dominated the airwaves, something else has been brewing... The Australian Greens don't want you to know it, but they are spearheading the
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I grew up believing in the rule of law; knowing that might did not make right and that justice would always go to those who deserved it while those who did the wrong thing would be punished for their misdeeds. Unfortunately, my experience with The Australian Skeptics and Stop the
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Today’s post was written by Tasha David, one of the AVN's committee members, who has had to endure the grief of having several children injured by vaccines – followed by two extremely healthy unvaccinated children. Her greatest regret is that she did not learn about the risks of
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The hero in Orwell's novel, 1984, was Winston Smith who worked for what was euphemistically referred to as the Ministry of Truth. His job was to rewrite history. In those halcyon pre-computer days, Orwell pictured Smith as literally cutting and pasting passages out of books to make events
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On Tuesday, July 9th, I uploaded a post to the AVN's Facebook Page regarding a statement the AVN's President, Mr Greg Beattie, had made on the programme Today Tonight that evening. Part of Greg's statement which concerned threatening phone calls from the home of
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Senator Richard Di Natale - wants to force the AVN to disband in order to silence debate on the issue of vaccination. Last week in an article published by the Daily Telegraph (yes, the same newspaper that started the "No Jab, No Play" compulsory vaccination campaign and has
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Free speech is meaningless unless it involves the freedom to make statements that others think are false. The argument for free speech is that open discussion is the best system for reaching the truth. Viewpoints can be strengthened by being challenged. Dr Brian Martin, Debating Vaccination In 1997, representatives of
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The Australian Vaccination Network (AVN) conducted an on-line membership survey at the end of 2012, with 640 members replying. Eighty percent of these members were female and most had children. Their overall education level was high - over 80% had a post school qualification and 56% had a bachelor degree
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An open letter to the open-minded by Dr Isaac Golden There are many difficult conversations in healthcare – how to best assist people dying in pain, policies regarding foetal termination, the ethics of spending a million dollars on a procedure to help one person rather than using that money to assist
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Dateline: June 28, 2013 On Tuesday this week, the Australian Senate, at the behest of medical doctor and Australian Greens Party Health Spokesperson, Senator Richard Di Natale, passed a motion regarding the consumer-run support group the Australian Vaccination Network (AVN). The Senate feels that parents who make informed choices about
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In what can only be described as a torrent of ignorance, health spokesperson for the Greens, Senator Richard Di Natale, put a motion to the Senate on Tuesday, June 25th, calling for the AVN to "immediately disband and cease their harmful and unscientific scare campaign against vaccines". Senator
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Dr. Art Caplan recently posted an editorial, “Liability for Failure to Vaccinate,” on this blog. He argues that those who contract infectious disease should be able to recover damages from unvaccinated people who spread it. If you miss work, or your baby has to go to the hospital because of