AVN achieves precedent-setting government immigration ban for overseas antivaxers | reasonable hank

When I first encountered the anti-vaccination pressure group, the Australian Vaccination-skeptics Network, over 8 years ago, as a part of Stop the Australian (Anti) Vaccination Network, one of the first things which became apparent was that the anti-vaccination activists would become self-fulfilling prophecies – due to their verbose, unearned hubris, along with their vilification of bereaved families, and their attacks on doctors and other public health workers, and their attacks on the media, and their attacks on politicians – who would succeed in bringing about that which they were, at that stage, strawmanning for business: fighting against (then-nonexistent) compulsory vaccination and the censure of their as-yet unchecked and lucrative, awful behaviour...

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Inside the anti-vax cult: Cathering and Greg Hughes bombarded with vicious attacked 24 hours after their baby son Riley’s death | Herald Sun

WITHIN 24 hours of their baby boy’s death, Catherine and Greg Hughes were confronted with the ugliness that drives the misinformed anti-vax warriors.

The grieving parents were bombarded with vicious attacks claiming they were “baby-killers” and that their infant son Riley had died because they did not treat him with vitamins and essential oils...

Full exposé here: Inside the anti-vax cult: Cathering and Greg Hughes bombarded with vicious attacked 24 hours after their baby son Riley’s death | Herald Sun

Vaxxed threatens Fiona O’Leary – Phillipe Diaz doubles down

In a previous post, I addressed the question whether there was any basis to the threat of a defamation suit by Phillipe Diaz, CEO of the Vaxxed distributor, Cinema Libre, against Irish autism advocate Fiona O’Leary, and concluded that most likely there isn’t. Since then, Ms. O’Leary has been interviewed and spoken on the issue in Irish newspapers (here and here), Jezebel, and an Irish radio show, and it’s clear the attempt to silence her failed, and probably backfired. This article is an update to what has happened after Vaxxed threatens Fiona O’Leary.

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Video campaign: "Vaccines do NOT cause Autism"

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— Fiona Pettit O'Leary (@fionapettit71) 24 July 2016

Vaxxed anti-vaccine film distributor threatens autism rights advocate | reasonable hank

Cinema Libre Studio, the distributor of the dishonest, Andrew Wakefield anti-vaccination fiction-film, Vaxxed, has threatened an Irish, autism-rights advocate with defamation.

 Fiona O’Leary has posted the threats, from Cinema Libre Studio CEO Philippe Diaz, on her Facebook profile...

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Autistic children are like chimps and dogs, don’t you know?

If you need any more proof of the kind of stupidity being thrown around by anti-vaccine loons, look no further than this video:


(Someone stored the whole video on Google Drive since these things tend to disappear.) In the video, Del Bigtree is sitting at a table with some anti-vaccine luminaries talking about autistic children. […]

Read more at: Autistic children are like chimps and dogs, don’t you know? by Reuben

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Respectful Insolence: Andrew Wakefield and Del Bigtree: Privileged white males harming African-Americans with antivaccine propaganda

The fantasies of the anti-vaccine crowd

I really feel bad for people who are deep into the anti-vaccine cult. It has got to be a horrible existence to have to explain away reality day after day. Vaccines do not cause autism, but they have to go to enormous lengths to try and convince themselves (and others) that vaccines do cause autism. […]



Read more at: The fantasies of the anti-vaccine crowd by Reuben