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Please sign stop AVN petition before next week!

Eos of the Eons

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Eos of the Eons
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Hi All,

So it can be printed off and posted to the HCCC by the end of August to coincide with Meryl Dorey's deadline for responding to the complaint, the petition will close next Thursday, 27 August at 3pm. We are up to 441 signatures but would really like to hit 500. If you haven't already signed, please go to http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/stop_avn/ and add your name to the list.
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This is a plea from the Stop AVN facebook group. Thanks much!
 
Thank you!

The reason this is important now is because the AVN is one of the biggest vaccine misinformation machines out there. There are others, with Mercola and whale.to also making the same spins, but something may be done, maybe, and this will be interesting.

See facebook for more details about the AVN leader's support of hogwash like homeopathy, etc. There is also more to this "campaign" and what else can be done as well.
 
Eos of the Eons said:
This is a plea from the Stop AVN facebook group. Thanks much!
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Could you post a little bit more a about the issue? I figured out what the AVN is, but does it only operate in Australia? Is the HCCC an Australian body? What exactly is the petition trying to accomplish?
 
Bob Blaylock said:
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/internet.asp
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I know Bob, they usually don't do anything with these petitions, but in this case they will compile it and send it along with everything else they are doing.


AVN is an Aussie group, however all woo woos quote them extensively. Their misinformation about vaccines is just as bad as Mercola's (outrageous untruths).

Here is some more information on this movement to get AVN to tone down their misinformation:
http://skepticzone.wordpress.com/20...o-vaccination-ad-in-the-australian-newspaper/

http://www.ratbags.com/rsoles/comment/avn.htm
http://atheistage.org/?page_id=1200
 
From the Ratbags link:

woman with an autistic son (4) and another son (2) who was not autistic once asked the AVN for advice. She was told about the following services offered by the AVN to anyone who needs them:
  • How to swear a false oath that she was a conscientious objector, even if she wasn't.
  • How to deceive a doctor by explicitly asking for written advice about which vaccines should be given and then not taking the advice. The doctor's letter could be used if any problems arose getting government benefits.
  • How to keep unvaccinated children in school during an outbreak by lying to the school and delaying any action the school could take.
  • How to submit spurious '"vaccine adverse effect" reports, including one for the son who is not autistic.
  • How to find a homeopath who can cure the autism.
It would be difficult to defame an organisation which does such a good job of defaming itself.
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Read down to the bottom to the current antics of AVN and even writers at "natural news".
 
Curt, if you read the OP, that is not all they are doing. The petition will be sent with other things. It is just one thing, and they are printing the list of names, not just leaving it on the net.
 
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