I’m currently travelling back home from the beautiful Sunshine Coast of QLD after a wonderful 3-days at the Nexus Conference. This is the second time I have attended this event as a speaker and just like the last time, the experience was second to none. If you haven’t yet been to one of these conferences, … Continue reading »
Posted in July 2011 …
Does the flu vaccine really reduce the risk of premature birth?
Here we have a media report on a ‘study’ that has been adjusted (a euphemism for the numbers being played with until the researchers got the results they set out to get) to show that there is a 70% lower risk of premature birth in babies born to mothers who got the flu vaccine during … Continue reading »
Don’t suppress dissent, says the Australian
For those of you who didn’t hear it, Adam Spencer, a science reporter for the ABC and a prominent defender of the Australian Skeptics, ‘interviewed’ Lord Monckton last week. Lord Monckton has been ‘on the nose’ because he questions whether or not human activities are causing global warming. He has also gotten into trouble for comparing … Continue reading »
100 times increase in Whooping Cough – is it REALLY just more testing?
The headline was a surprise – but the content was just more of the same old -same old. The more than 100 times increase in reported cases of pertussis (whooping cough) isn’t real -it’s just more testing. So the fact that we have gone from 300 cases in 1991 to more than 35,000 cases today … Continue reading »
