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Free E-book – Germs, Genes, & Civilization: How Epidemics Shaped Who We Are Today

I am not sure how long this will free deal will last, but if you click the image to the left it will take you to the kindle store where you can download Germs, Genes, & Civilization: How Epidemics Shaped Who We Are Today for free.

The book is pitched as a laypersons guide to the [...]

The Twilight of Australian Vaccination Network?

The Australian Vaccination Network (AVN) has suffered some solid blows recently and it’s my sincere hope that these blows will spell the end of the AVN as any sort of credible organisation on the subject of health.

Now before some ideologue jumps in and mentions censorship, big pharma conspiracies and unleashes a tirade of ill thought [...]

Creationists undermine teachers and the science curriculum

Setting the scene

Teaching is by far the hardest and challenging job I have ever held – long hours, constant resistance to learning from your charges, finding different and exciting ways to spruce up your content to motivate or inspire.  I worked out in my first year that I was averaging well over a 60 hour [...]

Health Commission Issues Public Warning regarding Aussie Anti-Vaccination group

The New South Wales Health Care Complaints Commission(HCCC) has issued a public warning about the misnamed? Australian Vaccination Network.  The commission, after two complaints from the public, investigated the AVN finding that the group:

provides information that is solely anti-vaccination
contains information that is incorrect and misleading
quotes selectively from research to suggest that vaccination may [...]

Viability of Ethics Classes questioned by…the church.

In a stunning show of concern Jude Hennessy, director of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine in the Wollongong Diocese has been quoted as saying:

“It is really difficult to see how proponents of ethics classes will in a similar way attract and motivate, adequately train and resource these classes in an ongoing fashion,”

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This is in response, [...]