Author Archives: complexitydaemon
AVN breaking the law (again)
The Australian Vaccination-Skeptics Network (AVN) may well have escaped legal action regarding their web site, aided and abetted by University of Wollongong academic Professor Brian Martin. However, as an organisation still registered with NSW Fair Trading, they still need to … Continue reading
The AVN fought the law and the law won: AVN stopped.
University of Wollongong academic provides strategy to antivaccination group on how to avoid the law. Continue reading
The paleodiet won’t cure you, hunter gatherers died of cancer too.
Prof. Alice Roberts writes in The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being (Amazon, iTunes): …recent changes in our digestive physiology mean that the whole idea of a ‘paleodiet’, purportedly healthier because it recreates the diet we evolved to eat as hunter-gatherers, is … Continue reading
Australia’s chief anti-vaccination group in tatters.
What’s left of the Australian Vaccination-skeptics Network, Inc.? Answer: not much, at least officially. Following the claim that the Australian Vaccination-skeptics Network’ (AVSN’s) Facebook page was handed over as a fan-operated page to a fake profile, “Ben Rush” (whom I have discussed … Continue reading
Moruya Chiro and “Wellness”
On the 20th of October, 2014, I wrote the NSW Health Care Complaints Commission and the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) to make the following complaint: Well-adjusted babies On the 8th of October, Moruya Chiro and Wellness (ABN 98 527 501 … Continue reading
bash, OS X dhcp, and you
tl;dr: OS X is not vulnerable to shellshock exploitation via DHCP. So the shellshock bug is kinda nasty for anything running bash, particularly if you have services like Apache (and particularly with CGI scripts that use bash) open to the … Continue reading
Universal Medicine cult wins Lismore Chamber of Commerce’s People’s Choice Award
Upon learning that the Universal Medicine cult recently won the Lismore Chamber of Commerce’s People’s Choice Award, I wondered whether it was as a result of vote spamming, as they have a prior form for that. So I wrote to … Continue reading
Mrs Dorey, devoid of science, resorts to lying.
In her recent Facebook post, devoid of any science, Mrs Dorey refers to the fact that I’m not a medical doctor. My qualifications aren’t related to the content as I was quite clearly referring to the HCCC decision, along with … Continue reading
Public liability: AVN, “Dr” David Hendrey & the “Healthy Lifestyle” Expo
Dear Wayne, I have been speaking with a lawyer, who pointed out to me that liability could arise if an adverse event was suffered as a result of information provided by the AVN or any other exhibitors for that matter. … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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