AVN: laughing stock

Hmm, what to say about the AVN’s latest rant against the HCCC except to say that the descriptions fit the AVN much better than they do the HCCC, for example:

• “They have made themselves into a laughing stock”, like losing fights with Fair Trading, The Health Care Complaints Commission, the Office of Liquor and Gaming, the “No Jab No Play” legislation, …

• “nobody can have faith in any statements made by this body when they continue to rely upon verifiably incorrect and biased information”, like the list of cherry picked vaccine/autism studies as debunked here

• “they also refused to answer questions…”, like

Despite claims of the AVSN being an open book, the financial details remain something of a mystery. Why are your computing costs so high, for example—it looks like you are purchasing new computers every year, which seems excessive, along with your web hosting—and I deal routinely with these costs in my job. Also, were the professional fees for accounting, for lawyers, or some combination thereof?
Unlike Stop the AVN, I can’t see any money being spent directly on helping parents. Can you outline on which items in your budget the donations were put to, exactly?

To which the President of the AVN responds

I will not enter into any discussion with you regarding any deeper aspects of our financial affairs.

• “…or provide documentary evidence for their claims, many of which were either demonstrably or intentionally incorrect.” Say, for example, this or this or this.

• “behave as though they are above the law”, like their “freeman of the land” defence, “and allow themselves to become tools for corporate financial interests” like Andrew Wakefield, or Mike Adams.