Professor Fiona Stanley was our Australian of the Year in 2003 for Children’s Health so it was disappointing to read the story in the West Australian newspaper titled “Professor Fiona Stanley speaks out against ‘evil’ anti-vaxers” (Regina Titelius, 24 April 2017). Instead of addressing the vaccination issues that thousands of parents are concerned about Fiona… [Read more]
The University of Wollongong and the Truth About Vaccines
On 18 January 2016, one week after the University of Wollongong published my PhD thesis on the university website, Professor Heather Yeatman, who’s expertise is in nutrition, was permitted to promote the Australian government’s claims about the safety and efficacy of vaccines on the university website. This has been endorsed by other academics without scientific… [Read more]
Open Letter, To Australian Journalists, Re the False claims about Academic Research on Vaccines (14 December 2016)
Open Letter to Australian Journalists 14 December 2016 Dear Journalists, On the 20 January 2016 John Cunningham, a medical practitioner and lobby group activist, who has no connection to the University of Wollongong (UOW), was given a voice in the mainstream media to disparage, without evidence, the assessment of a university PhD thesis (see letter… [Read more]
Open Letter, University of Wollongong, Australia, ‘Media Awards being given to Reporters who Denigrate Academic Research on Health’
Vice-Chancellor University of Wollongong (UOW), Australia 2 March 2017 Dear Professor Wellings, I have previously made you aware of the false claims about vaccines that are being made on the University of Wollongong (UOW) website and these claims are directly affecting children’s health. You will also be aware that the normal channels for debating academic… [Read more]
A News Reporter asks to be Removed from an Email List Re Children’s Health and Vaccination
Open Letter To University of Wollongong (UOW) Academics 20 February 2017 Re: Ben Dickinson, a Reporter at Post Newspapers WA, asks to be removed from this emailing list. Dear Professor Alison Jones, Professor Yeatman (and the 60 UOW academics supporting the statement about vaccination on the UOW website), I have received a request from a… [Read more]
University of Wollongong (UOW) Promoting False Claims about Vaccines
17 February 2017 Here is my open letter to the Executive-Dean of the Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health at the University of Wollongong (UOW): Dear Professor Alison Jones, In May 2016 you stated in a newspaper article to the Australian public that the link between vaccines and autism has been “discredited” (Kylar Loussikian, The… [Read more]
Lobby Groups and the Vaccination Debate in Australia
Lobby groups in Australia such as the Australian Skeptics, Stop the Australian Vaccination Network (SAVN) and the Friends of Science in Medicine (FSM), are using abuse and ridicule to prevent Australian consumers and professionals from properly debating the use of vaccines. Subscribers of these lobby groups are using the mainstream media and social websites to… [Read more]
Open Letter, Australian Government, ‘Chronic Illness and Vaccination Rates in the Australian Population’
Open Letter 30 September 2016 To the Minister for Social Services The Honourable Christian Porter MP, Re Financial Incentives for Medical Interventions in Healthy People; a breach of the Nuremberg Code Directives: Silence or no response to these directives is an admission that your policy is invalid. 1. I direct you to provide me with… [Read more]
Open Letter, University of Wollongong, “Vaccines can and do Cause Autism”
On the 26 August 2016 I wrote the following letter to Alison Jones, executive dean of the Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health at the University of Wollongong, requesting that she provide the evidence for her claim that the link between vaccines and autism has been “discredited”. Open Letter The Executive Dean of the Faculty… [Read more]
Correcting the False and Misleading Information Provided by John Cunningham in the Vaccination Debate
On my website I have invited medical practitioners and other health professionals to debate the researched information that I am providing on Australia’s vaccination policies. John Cunningham decided to take up this offer in February/March 2014. He is a leader of the Stop the Australian Vaccination Network (SAVN) lobby group and an orthopaedic surgeon – not an… [Read more]
