{"id":16707,"date":"2017-08-07T21:48:42","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T11:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=16707"},"modified":"2017-08-07T21:48:42","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T11:48:42","slug":"avn-rejects-coags-call-for-scientific-censorship-and-support-for-medical-bigotry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=16707","title":{"rendered":"AVN Rejects COAG\u2019s call for scientific censorship and support for medical bigotry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is rather startling how blatant are the calls for censorship of the truth. The liars really cannot stand their lies being exposed.<br \/>\nThe Australian Vaccination-skeptics Network, Inc (AVN) condemns the Australian Government\u2019s calls for censorship of data released by United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) scientist, Dr William Thompson. This data demonstrated a 700% increased risk of autism in children who received the MMR vaccine on time.<br \/>\nThey have also stated that a board-certified medical specialist, Dr Suzanne Humphries, now touring Australia with the film, VaxXed: From Cover-up to Catastrophe, should not have been allowed into the country.<br \/>\n\u201cWe want the government to start standing with the science, not with outdated policies and corporate pseudo-science,\u201d says Tasha David, AVN President and mother of 6 children injured by vaccination. \u201cWhen Dr Thompson released data showing his own study misled governments worldwide about the safety of MMR vaccine, this should have been a wakeup call to Australian leaders.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cThe AVN\u2019s VaxXed Tour Down-Under has gotten under the skin of the Australian Government to the point of making the COAG agenda because it highlights their inaction on the Thompson data at the expense of Aussie kids.\u201d Ms David continued.<br \/>\nThe AVN will not tolerate the anti-science quackery being put out by the Australian Government.<br \/>\n\u201cThe AVN has supported Australia\u2019s parents since 1994 and we will continue to be their voice and their advocates regardless of the crimes committed by our government and their ministers. Thousands of Australians joined us on this tour and there is no putting this particular genie back in the bottle.<br \/>\n&#8220;Australian families are intelligent, informed and right now, very angry about how their own government has harmed their children. If I were a Government Minister, Senator or MP, I would be very concerned about how secure my job was right now. Those who tell the truth will be re-elected \u2013 those who lie and show their scorn for basic human rights will not.\u201d concluded Ms David.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is rather startling how blatant are the calls for censorship of the truth. The liars really cannot stand their lies being exposed. The Australian Vaccination-skeptics Network, Inc (AVN) condemns the Australian Government\u2019s calls for censorship of data released by United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) scientist, Dr William Thompson. This data &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=16707\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;AVN Rejects COAG\u2019s call for scientific censorship and support for medical bigotry&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}