Australian Vaccination-skeptics Network

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The Australian Vaccination-skeptics Network, or AVN (the cranks formerly known as the Australian Vaccination Network[1]), is an anti-vaccine propaganda organisation based in Bangalow, New South Wales. It is the collective hellspawn of an American expatriate named Meryl Dorey, lobbying against compulsory vaccinations in Australia by denying the overwhelming evidence[2] that vaccines save lives by preventing childhood diseases. It also promotes alternative medicine, such as chiropractic and homeopathy, to combat diseases that would be easily prevented by vaccinations.[3] It has become notorious the world over not only for the dishonesty of Dorey, but also for its harassment of grieving families whose infant children passed away from vaccine-preventable diseases.

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[edit] Misleading name

The Australian state of New South Wales' Office of Fair Trading has ordered Meryl Dorey to change the name of her organization because it is misleading and endangering people. She had two months to register a new name[1]. The organization appealed to the Administrative Decisions Tribunal of New South Wales, but on November 25 2013 the order was confirmed[4].

[edit] Stop the AVN

Stop the AVN (SAVN) is a loose group of anti-AVN campaigners organised after controversy surrounding the death of a baby, Dana McCaffery, of the preventable illness whooping cough (Bordetella pertussis).[5]

[edit] The Real Australian Sceptics

In May of 2012 the AVN launched a blog called The Real Australian Sceptics, a blatant attempt both to capitalise on the reputation of their opponents, the actual Australian Skeptics, while simultaneously calling that group pseudoskeptics. This, naturally enough, provoked complaints.[6][7]

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