Unspoken danger of the Australian Vaccination Network

If you missed Lateline’s story on the Health Care Complaint Commission (NSW) handing down some adverse findings for the fringe anti-vaccination group the AVN here it is:

Now the obvious dangers of this group are that they could/are? contribute to a fall in vaccination rates.  They appeal to emotion, misunderstand the evidence surrounding vaccination and spread this misunderstanding.

Their extreme views, do have the potential for detracting from debates/discussions that we really need to have about commercial entities involved in producing  pharmaceutical products,and the influence of private, profit driven research on health.

Discussion like the following bought to us by the Token Skeptic podcast.

Token Skeptic #23 – On Big Pharma – Interview With Dr Leslie Cannold and Michael McRae

To be frank the Us vs Them mentality that the AVN’s behaviour fosters shits me.  I want careful discussion and debate from “qualified” people not from irrational people who jump in the pond and do nothing but muddy the water.

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