Comments on: Breaking: Australian antivax group slammed for "misleading and inaccurate information"

By: Penn and Teller take on vaccines | Bad Astronomy | FEEDER

Penn and Teller take on vaccines | Bad Astronomy | FEEDER — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:04:52 +0000

[...] and a new antivax FAQ – Antivaxxers take note: vaccines stop polio outbreak in Tajikistan – BREAKING: Australian antivax group slammed for “misleading and inaccurate information” – The vaccine [...]

By: AVN now routinely getting publicly humiliated | Bad Astronomy

AVN now routinely getting publicly humiliated | Bad Astronomy — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:20:38 +0000

[...] claims. This all comes on the heels of the New South Wales Health Care Complaints Commission concluding that the AVN is in fact and in deed antivax, and needs to have disclaimers on their site — a finding Dorey has [...]

By: The Skeptic: Blog » Weekly news and blog roundup: The bleeding obvious

The Skeptic: Blog » Weekly news and blog roundup: The bleeding obvious — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:26:23 +0000

[...] Read more here. [...]

By: Steve-o

Steve-o — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:31:47 +0000

Is this Ken Macleod the SF writer?

By: MaDeR

MaDeR — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:02:30 +0000

Slap on the wirst. How anyone will enforce showing this disclaimer? Of course, this is still good news.

By: Information from the Australian Vaccination Network should not be read as medical advice » FNQhome.com

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:45:55 +0000

[...] Bad Astronomy has a good brief write up of events, and the report can be read at the Vaccination Awareness and Information Service. The Commission has determined that the health education service provided by the Australian Vaccination Network on its website provides misleading and inaccurate information on the subject of vaccination. [...]

By: Australian Vaccination Network condemned by health authorities for harassing & misleading parents « Skepacabra

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 05:42:51 +0000

[...] Breaking: Australian antivax group slammed for “misleading and inaccurate information” (blogs.discovermagazine.com) [...]

By: flip

flip — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 04:18:01 +0000

I watched the news breaking on ABC (Australia), and was very happy to see it. The segment wasn’t as hard-hitting as I expected, although they came down on the side of science (and avoided the usual ‘balance’), even coming up with some hilarious footage of Dorey trying to reverse her own words.

Nice to see the McCaffreys also doing their bit, in what must be an extremely difficult situation and under lots of emotional stress. Congrats to everyone who fought for science and won!

By: Grimbold

Grimbold — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:11:38 +0000

That Meryl Dorey really is a nasty piece of work.

By: jfb

jfb — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:01:41 +0000

@Leo #5:

When I first read the story, I thought they had a hatred of digital equipment vintage ~~mainframes~~ minicomputers.

Fixed for me (VAXen weren't mainframe class machines in power or price). And yeah, every time I see the term "antivax" it makes me a little sad; I cut my programmer teeth on VAX/VMS. Everything since then has been a bit of a disappointment.