Well it seems the Australian Vaccination Networks anti-vaccination seminar is set to go ahead in Perth. Despite many Skeptics contacting the Library to warn them of the dishonest information that the AVN wishes to push onto parents. The next step to combating the AVN is to contact the Libraries board of directors and notify them of the misinformation that the AVN is going to use it for.

However if all else fails the next step is to attend and report on the seminar, which is exactly what I intend to do on June 1st. I expect many of the attendees will be anti-vaxers but some will be genuinely looking for answers and if skeptics are on hand perhaps we can help to minimise the damage that is caused by the [...]

From Journal of Skepticism
http://www.danbuzzard.net/journal/avn-seminar-to-go-ahead.html
5/27/2010 9:23:00 PM
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The Australian Vaccination Network (AVN) seminar finally went ahead in Perth on 1 June 2010 after securing a venue at the State Library of Western Australia. The seminar itself was covered by Kylie Sturgess and other perth skeptics. Kylie has created a separate website which covers this event at Vaccination Facts. As we suspected, the seminar [...]

From Vaccination Awareness and Information Service
http://www.antivaxxers.com/?p=2116
6/8/2010 5:16:47 AM
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The Uniting Church in the City has withdrawn access to their venue for a scheduled AVN seminar, due to be held in Perth tomorrow night. According to the Church there were concerns raised by a number of people, including prominent church members who are experts in the field of ethics and public health, concerned that the message [...]

From The Skeptics' Book of Pooh-Pooh
http://scepticsbook.com/2010/05/13/uniting-church-cancels-venue-access-to-avn-for-perth-seminar/
5/13/2010 5:55:31 PM
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The Uniting Church in the City of Perth has taken a stance against the misinformation put forward by the Australian Vaccination Network. At short notice, the Church cancelled a booking the AVN had made to speak at a Church venue, citing that “the message promoted by the Australian Vaccination Network is not in line with the [...]

From Australian Skeptics
http://www.skeptics.com.au/latest/news/uniting-church-cancels-avn-seminar/
5/13/2010 10:25:35 PM
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Confused by the “vaccination debate?” Are you looking for information you can trust? The Telethon Institute for Child Health Research is hosting a free public information seminar on the latest scientific evidence surrounding childhood vaccination. It will be an opportunity to hear from and ask questions of the State’s leading experts in immunology, [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Reminder! Telethon Institute Panel On Vaccination In Perth!", url: "http://podblack.com/2010/06/reminder-telethon-institute-panel-on-vaccination-in-perth/" });

From PodBlack Cat
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6/30/2010 10:54:33 AM
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Head to the Australian Skeptics website for a news item on the event! I would like to think that there’s several factors that contributed to the sparse attendance of Meryl Dorey and Judy Wilyman’s second lecture at the State Library of Western Australia (called the Alexander Library) in central Perth on Tuesday, 20th July. There [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Meryl Dorey’s Disaster – AVN Returns To Perth (Minus An Audience)!", url: "http://podblack.com/2010/07/meryl-doreys-disaster-avn-returns-to-perth-minus-an-audience/" });

From PodBlack Cat
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7/22/2010 1:15:46 PM
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Very, very busy at the moment with an even busier week on the cards! However, there’s something that locals can do and even interstate or overseas can help out with. The Australian Vaccination Network (AVN) is the group that the Skeptic Zone podcast report upon on a regular basis. The AVN spreads false claims including that vaccines [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Meryl Dorey Of AVN Returning To Perth And The Alexander Library – Take Action!", url: "http://podblack.com/2010/05/meryl-dorey-of-avn-returning-to-perth-and-the-alexander-library-take-action/" });

From PodBlack Cat
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5/23/2010 11:37:23 PM
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A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that the Australian Vaccination Network had been planning to hold a seminar in Perth to lie to some parents but the venue owners, the Uniting Church, decided that such an event was "not in line with the ethos and values o...

From The Millenium Project
http://www.ratbags.com/rsoles/index.html#29avn
5/31/2010 11:13:00 AM
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Meryl Dorey, from the Australian Vaccination Network is in WA holding "seminars" where she will no doubt warn parents of the "dangers" and "myths" of vaccination.

Anti-vaccinationists love correlations where they take to sets of data, which may or may not be directly related, and draw conclusions from the coincidences of those data sets.

One of their favourites is that autism (and, well, any number of diseases and syndromes) has supposedly increased since vaccination began.

Another is that vaccination wasn't responsible for the reduction in many childhood diseases. Instead, they claim it was sanitation and clean water alone that led to improvements in health.

So basically we have vaccination and sanitation sitting side-by-side. One supposedly causing autism and the other delivering better health.

How is it, therefore, that they don't [...]

From Thinking is Real
http://thinkingisreal.blogspot.com/2011/10/in-wa-sanitation-causes-autism.html
10/31/2011 1:32:00 AM
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FURTHER UPDATE – Thanks to the Stop The Australian Vaccination Network Page on Facebook, Dorey outlines what her view of it is and more details are given as to how to thank the Uniting Church for this move! I’d first learned of the efforts of Meryl Dorey to come to Perth, thanks to Dave the Happy [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "BREAKING NEWS – Perth Uniting Churches Say NO To The Australian Vaccination Network!", url: "http://podblack.com/2010/05/breaking-news-perth-uniting-churches-say-no-to-the-australian-vaccination-network/" });

From PodBlack Cat
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5/13/2010 7:59:03 PM
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Dear Readers, In response to Meryl Dorey and the AVN coming to Perth on the 1st June, 2010 – this blog was created. Please read the pages that are featured, including: Vaccines – Why? Child Vaccination Rates Plunge – The West Australian Newspaper, May 28th, 2010. The WA Flu Vaccine Under-5 Program As a part [...]

From Vaccination Facts - A Response To Meryl Dorey And The AVN At Perth's State Library
http://vaccinationfacts.wordpress.com/2010/05/31/vaccination-facts-a-blog-in-response-to-the-avn-coming-to-perth/
5/31/2010 7:39:24 PM
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