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Woodford Folk Festival invites anti-vax quack Meryl Dorey to peddle dangerous woo.
From the article: "...she suggested the slogan “Shaken Maybe Syndrome” as a way of implying that Shaken Baby Syndrome does not exist but is always damage caused by vaccines; she provided strong support to a man imprisoned in the US for the murder of a ten-week-old boy, her support being based on the idea that the dreadful injuries to the child had to be the effects of a vaccine, not the actions of a violent man; she is on record as an AIDS denier; she said on television that “whooping cough didn’t kill us thirty years ago and it’s not kill anybody today”. "
Adding insult to injury, this festival is sponsored by the local ABC festival, so we're paying some of her attendance fee.
(Have I mentioned what I think of people like Dorey? Well, consider it mentioned.)
The good news is that by getting vaccinated against things like measles and whooping cough, you're not only helping yourself and your kids. You're also giving some 'herd immunity' to kids who aren't vaccinated because their parents have fallen for the AVN's quackery. (You'll then have to put up with said parents proclaiming that vaccines are unnecessary because their kids turned out fine, but nobody said the world was a fair place.)
From the article: "...she suggested the slogan “Shaken Maybe Syndrome” as a way of implying that Shaken Baby Syndrome does not exist but is always damage caused by vaccines; she provided strong support to a man imprisoned in the US for the murder of a ten-week-old boy, her support being based on the idea that the dreadful injuries to the child had to be the effects of a vaccine, not the actions of a violent man; she is on record as an AIDS denier; she said on television that “whooping cough didn’t kill us thirty years ago and it’s not kill anybody today”. "
Adding insult to injury, this festival is sponsored by the local ABC festival, so we're paying some of her attendance fee.
(Have I mentioned what I think of people like Dorey? Well, consider it mentioned.)
The good news is that by getting vaccinated against things like measles and whooping cough, you're not only helping yourself and your kids. You're also giving some 'herd immunity' to kids who aren't vaccinated because their parents have fallen for the AVN's quackery. (You'll then have to put up with said parents proclaiming that vaccines are unnecessary because their kids turned out fine, but nobody said the world was a fair place.)
