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Judy Wilyman schikaniert Eltern eines toten Säuglings
Krokant:
Judy Wilyman, die Schande des australischen Kontinents, schikaniert Eltern von Dana McCaffery, einem kleinen Mädchen, das an Keuchhusten gestorben ist. Kein Wunder, war Judy Wilyman doch Schülerin des oberschlauen Vollesoterikers Peter Dingle, der seine Frau Penelope Dingle (Penelope Brown) an Krebs krepieren ließ, indem er sie der "Behandlung" der "Homöopathin" Francine Scrayen überließ.
(Das Sterben der Penelope Dingle (nee Brown)
http://transgallaxys.com/~kanzlerzwo/index.php?topic=7523.0 )
Das ist Dana McCaffery:
Das Bild stammt aus einem Video, das Danas Eltern aufgenommen haben. Es wurde im australischen Fernsehen gezeigt und ist online zu sehen.
Dana wurde nur vier Wochen alt. Sie starb an Keuchhusten. Sie war voll geimpft, doch nicht gegen Keuchhuchtsen. Die gegen Keuchhusten schützende Impfung hätte sie laut Impfplan erst mit sechs Wochen bekommen.
Das ist der neueste Bericht über Judy Wilyman:
http://www.illawarramercury.com.au/news/local/news/general/vaccine-row-grieving-parents-slam-researcher/2585886.aspx?storypage=0
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Illawarra Mercury
Vaccine row: grieving parents slam researcher
CYDONEE MARDON
11 Jun, 2012 12:00 AM
Grieving parents who lost a baby to whooping cough have lashed out at a University of Wollongong researcher who questioned their motives for going public with their story.
Judy Wilyman, a PhD student and former Illawarra high school teacher, questioned whether Toni and David McCaffery had been paid to promote the whooping cough vaccine.
Ms Wilyman said the State Government was using four-week-old Dana's death and "the mantra of seeing sick babies gasping for air" to push the vaccine.
MORE: Uni distances itself from student's anti-vax views
http://www.illawarramercury.com.au/news/local/news/general/uni-distances-itself-from-students-vaccination-views/2585887.aspx
MORE: Woonona mum's choice not to vaccinate
http://www.illawarramercury.com.au/news/local/news/general/mums-crystal-clear-on-no-immunisation/2585892.aspx
Dana died of whooping cough, or pertussis, in March 2009. Her parents have since worked with health authorities to raise awareness about the infection and gave permission for their story to be used on a NSW Health Department campaign.
On the Australian Vaccination Network (AVN) website, Ms Wilyman said she was "concerned to know if the McCafferys have received any money either directly or indirectly for promoting this cause".
"Can you assure me that the McCafferys have not received any money from the skeptic groups or any other lobby group for vaccines?" she asked.
MORE: An open letter from grieving parents
http://danamccaffery.com/openletter.html
"It is the Government and the media who have been using the McCafferys to promote a vaccine that should be accountable for this case being discussed by the public. Please forward this comment to the McCafferys so they can ask the Government if it is ethical for them to be promoting a vaccine to the public."
Toni McCaffery hit back on the Facebook wall Stop the Australian Vaccination Network.
"Dana is not an anecdote. We do not receive money for warning people about whooping cough. That is the most disgusting allegation.
"The money we received [from] the Australian Skeptics we donated to research to save babies from pertussis. Government has not 'used us' to promote vaccines in recent media stories. We agree to such interviews in our own time without any agenda other than to give people the warning we did not receive."
Mrs McCaffery said Dana's story appeared in a government brochure because "parents have a right to be warned about whooping cough and given accurate information".
"We did not get that warning. It is up to parents if they want to vaccinate. It is also up to any parent to go public and speak to media. Do not use us against other families."
The Mercury contacted Ms Wilyman who has so far declined to comment.
In May, the AVN posted on its website a letter from Ms Wilyman to the Australian Human Rights Commissioner. It said recent government programs "have been promoting the whooping cough vaccine on anecdotal evidence (in particular Dana McCaffery's death) and the mantra of 'seeing sick babies gasping for air'."
She said while such cases were tragic, "the promotion of vaccines on anecdotal evidence is inappropriate".
AVN president Meryl Dorey said the McCafferys had chosen to go public and had to expect comments from both sides of the debate. "If one side has the right to say something and the other doesn't, then we are not a democratic society," she said.
RELATED COVERAGE
11 Jun 12: Uni responds to anti-vaccine views
http://www.illawarramercury.com.au/news/local/news/general/uni-responds-to-antivaccine-views/2585887.aspx
11 Jun 12: Mum's crystal clear on no vaccinations
http://www.illawarramercury.com.au/news/local/news/general/mums-crystal-clear-on-no-vaccinations/2585892.aspx
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mehr:
"Finally, a media outlet has done a useful expose of one of the most dangerous organisations in Australia."
Australian Vaccination Network accused of harassing parents (ABC Lateline)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kedtPltPvf0
Transkrit der Sendung:
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2010/s2951651.htm
Krokant:
Über den schweinischen Feldzug, den Impfgegner wie Meryl Dorey und Judy Wilyman gegen Danas Eltern führen, gibt es TV-Berichte. Hier ist einer davon.
Das Video:
Australian Vaccination Network accused of harassing parents (ABC Lateline)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kedtPltPvf0
Für den Fall, daß wie in Deutschland Material von Servern der Fernsehsender verschwindet, eine Sicherung des Transkripts der Sendung:
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2010/s2951651.htm
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Broadcast: 12/07/2010
Lateline
Anti-vaccination group accused of harassing parents
Reporter: Steve Cannane
he NSW Health Care Complains Commission has compiled a damning report into the Australian Vaccination Network.
Transcript
LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: The NSW Health Care Complaints Commission has compiled a damning report after examining Australia's most prominent anti-vaccination group, the Australian Vaccination Network.
The commission accuses the AVN of providing inaccurate and misleading information and selectively quoting research out of context to argue against vaccination.
It's also noted accusations that the AVN harassed the parents of a child who died of whooping cough last year, after they'd advocated the importance of childhood vaccination.
The report's likely to go public within the next two weeks.
For its part, the AVN maintains it's not an anti-vaccination network, merely wanting parents to make informed choices.
Steve Cannane reports.
STEVE CANNANE, REPORTER: Meryl Dorey runs the Australian Vaccination Network from a home office on the North Coast of NSW. The AVN provides anti-vaccination information through their website, their magazine and seminars. But an investigation into the AVN by the Health Care Complaints Commission has found that the information they provide to parents is inaccurate and misleading.
MERYL DOREY, AUSTRALIAN VACCINATION NETWORK: This was not an independent investigation. This was an investigation by an organisation that set out to support Government policy, which is pro-vaccination. ... We do not agree that the HCCC has any jurisdiction over us and we have been telling this from the very beginning and we are seeking legal advice on this issue.
KEN MCLEOD, COMPLAINANT TO HCCC: I think they're a bunch of ratbags. I mean, reason and science just does not break through. They're not interested in the reality, they're interested in conspiracy theories and junk science.
STEVE CANNANE: Ken McLeod is the man who took the initial complaint against the AVN to the Health Care Complaints Commission.
KEN MCLEOD: I remember as a six-year-old seeing the look of horror on my father's face as the doctor told him that my sister had polio and my mother just being so shattered. And I remember going to the hospital ward in Townsville to visit my sister and it was an entire ward full of dozens of kids, little babies with polio. And it was awful, absolutely awful, and then only a year or so later, the polio vaccine came and this just disappeared. It was like magic. And it was just wonderful, and then, all these years later you now find people who are trying to set the clock back fifty years, and I thought, "Someone's got to do something."
STEVE CANNANE: More and more people rely on the internet for health care information. If you Google vaccination, the Australian Vaccination Network comes up second on the list of sites. But nowhere on their website do they declare they are an anti-vaccination organisation.
MERYL DOREY: Our position is to provide information that balances the information that parents get from their doctors and from the government. We have never said that we provide both sides of the story. We don't.
STEVE CANNANE: Nobel prize-winning immunologist Professor Peter Doherty says denying children vaccines is a crime against humanity.
PETER DOHERTY, NOBEL PRIZE WINNER: The reason it is a crime against humanity is it's really a crime against children, and children are vulnerable, we're responsible for them and basically anything that will adversely affect children strikes at us as a society.
STEVE CANNANE: Dana McCaffery died of whooping cough in March last year. She was just 32 days old - too young to be vaccinated against the disease also known as pertussis.
What her parents didn't realise was that they lived in an area with one of the lowest rates of childhood vaccination in the nation and one of the highest rates of whooping cough.
The McCaffery's live just a few kilometres from the headquarters of the Australian Vaccination Network. They say they've been harassed by the AVN since their daughter died and that the AVN has made repeated claims that Dana didn't die of pertussis.
TONI MCCAFFERY, PARENT: Our daughter wasn't even buried and it began. It began the day before her funeral. It began with phone calls to the Health Department to get her medical records contending she didn't die of pertussis.
STEVE CANNANE: This email from Paul Corben, the director of public health at the North Coast Area Health Service, backs up Toni McCaffery's claims.
PAUL CORBEN, DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC HEALTH, NORTH COAST AREA HEALTH SERVICE (male voiceover): "Ms Dorey called me on 12 March seeking details of your daughter's illness and death. Ms Dorey contended that I had misled the public in attributing your daughter's death to pertussis."
MERYL DOREY: I never said any of that. All I asked was ...
STEVE CANNANE: That's what he says in an email to Toni McCaffery.
MERYL DOREY: Well, I'm sorry, that's not true. That is not true. All I said was, "How was the diagnosis made? If it was a quick test, do you know that it's a real test and that the result is real? Was it really whooping cough?"
STEVE CANNANE: Meryl Dorey says repeatedly that Dana McCafferey "supposedly" died of pertussis.
TONI MCCAFFERY: It's the most offensive statement because I watched over five days my beautiful daughter suffer the most agonising death. She was just this innocent little girl who - it was cruel. But then to be put in a position where I have to prove that she died of pertussis, that's even crueller.
DAVE MCCAFFERY, PARENT: And she's diminishing the fact that pertussis does and can kill and it's gonna lead to someone to make a decision about vaccination that could put their baby or their family at risk, and that's not right.
STEVE CANNANE: OK, there is a post that you made in reference to the sceptics which said, "Isn't it incredible how they have made Dana into a martyr because she supposedly died from whooping cough?" Now could ...
MERYL DOREY: Did I say that?
STEVE CANNANE: Yeah.
MERYL DOREY: I don't believe I did.
STEVE CANNANE: OK.
MERYL DOREY: Let me see.
(Steve Cannane hands over statement.)
MERYL DOREY (reading from statement): "... but ignore all of the children and adults who have died after vaccination."
STEVE CANNANE: Yeah, but you still said that.
MERYL DOREY: I did say that and I still think that a death is a death.
STEVE CANNANE: Could you imagine reading that if your daughter had died of whooping cough? How would that make you feel?
MERYL DOREY: Can you imagine reading the Stop the AVN site or the Dana site ... ?
STEVE CANNANE: I'm asking you about comments you've made; I'm not asking you about comments they've made.
MERYL DOREY: OK. That's fine. That's fine.
STEVE CANNANE: Can you imagine reading those comments?
MERYL DOREY: I can imagine and it would probably be hurtful and I would be sorry if she felt hurt from what I had said. But, from my point of view, all children are important, all deaths are important.
STEVE CANNANE: The McCaffrey's have made their own complaint to the HCCC about the AVN. They have continued to advocate publicly for vaccination and say the AVN continues to publish false and hurtful comments about them - like this Facebook post by an AVN representative.
AVN REPRESENTATIVE (Facebook post, female voiceover): "One day I hope the parents of this baby tell the whole story and are able to see how they've been used by a group of ruthless scumbags with alterior (sic) motives. Then maybe they will be able to honour their child's life with the truth."
DAVE MCCAFFERY: To suggest that we're being used by a group of people, that we're not honouring our daughter's life with the truth, is just reprehensible. They're terrible people.
STEVE CANNANE: The AVN has been given 14 days to comply with the HCCC's findings and place a statement on their website telling consumers they provide anti-vaccination information and that this information should not be read as medical advice.
Steve Cannane, Lateline.
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AVN ist das "Australian Vaccination Network", eine Gruppe des übelsten und niederträchtigsten Impfgegnergesindels weltweit. Da wird den ELTERN der kleinen Dana unterstellt, sie würden lügen:
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AVN REPRESENTATIVE (Facebook post, female voiceover): "One day I hope the parents of this baby tell the whole story and are able to see how they've been used by a group of ruthless scumbags with alterior (sic) motives. Then maybe they will be able to honour their child's life with the truth."
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Die "Ehre" ("honour") durch dieses Pack!? Meryl Dory und Judy Wilyman sind die Schande des australischen Kontinents.
worelia:
http://www.health.qld.gov.au/news-alerts/news/150107-anti-vacc-response.asp
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Queensland Government
Queensland Health
Queensland Health's response to anti-vaccination discussions
Wednesday 7 January 2015
Timely vaccinations can prevent serious and sometimes life-threatening diseases
by Dr Sonya Bennett
Queensland Health is not involved in any capacity with the ‘Healthy Lifestyles Naturally’ seminars soon to be conducted in Queensland and does not in any way support anti-vaccination sentiments.
It is ironic that the seminars are called ‘Healthy Lifestyles Naturally’ as anti-vaccination discussions threaten the health of the community.
Vaccine preventable diseases such as whooping cough, measles, meningococcal disease and rotavirus are serious and sometimes life-threatening infections. Homeopathic products do not provide protection against these diseases.
We seek to minimise misinformation preventing a person from making an informed decision about immunisation.
In the interests of a healthy community, Queensland Health is conducting a campaign to debunk these common myths about immunisation and remind people of the value and importance of vaccination.
Modern vaccination programs have been established after rigorous scientific studies to ensure the best possible health outcomes for individuals and the population as a whole.
Many anti-vaccination claims are based on poorly conducted studies that have been discredited or disproven, such as claims that vaccinations cause SIDS or autism. These claims are entirely baseless.
Governments and numerous expert bodies worldwide support immunisation because it prevents serious and life-threatening infectious diseases.
Questions on this topic are best directed to the experts, such as an immunisation provider or your family doctor, with whom you would discuss other health questions.
The fact is that if vaccination stopped, vaccine preventable diseases would inevitably return causing devastation for many families.
There is a range of information available online at www.qld.gov.au/vaccinate
Concerns about the seminars should be directed to the event organiser.
Last updated: 7 January 2015
© The State of Queensland (Queensland Health) 1996-2014
Queensland Government
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Thymian:
Man sollte nachgucken, wo die Verbrecherin Wilyman sich jetzt herumtreibt.
Julian:
The so-called "university" "University of Wollongong" is a pigsty.
I take this piece from https://litfl.com/the-wilyman-phd/ . Read the comment by Brian Martin... You will vomit.
By the way:
6000 dead in DR Congo. Killed by measles. And by swine like Judy Wilyman.
83 dead in Samoa. Killed by measles. And by swine like Judy Wilyman.
The so-called "university" "University of Wollongong" has its hands deep in blood. It is a crime to let them go on unpunished.
Do stop the criminals and their enablers!
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The Wilyman PhD
by Dr Kristin Boyle, last update June 10, 2019
Our first child took a cruel week in dyin’
I’ve pulled three through, and buried two
Since then- and I’m past carin’
Henry Lawson 1899
I would like to make an a priori apology: I am about to make a good number of you feel very old. I am currently one rotation away from becoming an emergency physician, yet in all my years of training I have never shepherded a drooling, toxic child, nestled in a parent’s arms, for a gaseous induction in theatre. My lack of airway experience in the setting of paediatric bacterial epiglottitis is an unanticipated but quite delightful side effect of the introduction of the HiB vaccine to the Australian National Immunisation Schedule in 1993.
Immunisation is one of the great triumphs of the 20th century. If you are ever feeling a little despondent about the human condition, you could always remind yourself that you belong to a species that eliminated smallpox. For this reason I am deeply troubled by a farcical situation currently imploding within academia.
Dr Judy Wilyman is a tireless and determined anti-vaccination campaigner. She is also the proud holder of a brand spanking new PhD from the University of Wollongong School of Humanities and Social Inquiry, for her thesis entitled, “A critical analysis of the Australian government’s rationale for its vaccination policy.” It is currently available for download from the University of Wollongong Research Online Thesis Collection, replete with the University of Wollongong official logo. It was supervised by Brian Martin, a Professor of Social Sciences.
I have spent the better part of two days neglecting my fully vaccinated children while scouring her thesis, which rounds out at a whopping 390 pages, including appendix, bibliography and a tribute to a who’s who of the global anti-vaccination junk science community. (The only thing missing was a dedication to Andrew Wakefield) Please note this is intended as an opinion piece rather than a true academic critique. (Dr Helen Petousis-Harris, amongst others, is far more qualified than I for that task, and has already done so quite brilliantly). Rest assured I will not be submitting my ‘opinion’ for academic publication.
Her PhD opens with the statement, “Vaccination policies in Australia need to be scrutinised because the use of a medical intervention in the prevention of infectious disease has serious health and social implications.” I agree with Helen Petousis-Harris that this sounds very much like an a priori conclusion. After making a few other quite absurd and incorrect claims regarding international vaccine policy, she concludes her abstract with, “This investigation demonstrates that not all vaccines have been demonstrated to be safe, effective or necessary. It also concludes that the government’s claim that the benefits of vaccines far outweigh the risks cannot be sustained due to gaps in the scientific knowledge resulting from unfunded research and inadequate monitoring of adverse events after vaccination.” Those are big statements that one would think would require some scrutiny of a scientific nature before being accepted for doctorate level publication. Apparently not though.
The kindest way I can describe her thesis is as a wordy opinion piece. A poorly written one. That’s not a crime though, as much as I’d like it to be. The real travesty, however, is that she wades heavily into the scientific fields of immunology, epidemiology and public health, seemingly without any expert scientific review or guidance.
Brian Martin, in his written defence of his student, describes her thesis as “long and detailed.” I cannot argue with him on this point, though I would not consider either of those words as virtues, unless accompanied by another descriptor along the lines of “factually correct.” He also had the following to say, “Some…apparently believe that the only people qualified to comment on vaccination policy are “experts” who have degrees and refereed publications in scientific journals, for example is immunology or epidemiology….Being an expert in immunology or epidemiology gives no special insight into vaccine policy. If anyone can lay claim to having special knowledge about policy, it is those who have researched policy itself, including critics of the Australian government’s policy such as Judy.”
I take his point. But it’s very obvious at even a cursory read that Wilyman strays well beyond the field of policy.
My conclusion: This thesis is the inevitable product of someone with an ideology based agenda, described by director of the National Centre of Immunisation Research and Surveillance for Vaccine Preventable Diseases Peter McIntyre as “not willing to entertain evidence” which contradicted her beliefs, spending the better part of a decade dwelling within an echo-chamber of misinformation. It is an admirably complete assembly of the arguments the global anti-vaccination lobby have been using for years, the majority of them irrelevant, deliberate or unintentional misunderstandings, or just plain wrong. Helen Petousis-Harris referred to it as “a PhD by stealth.” I see it, quite simply, as a junk thesis and a stain upon the university who accepted it.
Up to this point the whole situation is so bad it’s almost funny. Almost. I wasn’t laughing, however, at the official statement from the university in question, laden with platitudes towards academic freedom of thought and lacking any acknowledgement of the genuine concerns of the scientific community. My unease was not soothed with their reassurances of strict ethical and quality standards and I almost fell of my seat when they invoked the “unchallengeable knowledge in the field of study” of the two external examiners. Unchallengeable?? ” Who did they ask? God and Vladimir Putin?
There are two potential scenarios regarding the external review process. One is that neither reviewer had any expertise in epidemiology or immunology. Another is that at least one of them did but still considered her thesis to be of an acceptable standard. I am not sure which is the lesser of two evils. Let’s call it a draw and leave it at that.
I will not pre-empt the findings of a hopefully inevitable investigation into potential academic misconduct, but I will offer a plausible explanation for how such a situation could occur:
A grossly unsuitable candidate for doctorate level study.
A slightly rogue supervisor with a passion for dissent and a keen sympathy for the anti-vaccination movement.
Handpicked external reviewers, perhaps experiencing a touch of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
An institutional focus on academic freedom resulting in a lackadaisical attitude to academic rigour.
And there you have it. The classic Swiss cheese effect.
Judy Wilyman has every right to hold and express these views (And believe me she does. Frequently.). What she doesn’t have the right to do is express them as a competing narrative to
modern science by ignoring any evidence which doesn’t suit her argument, nor be sanctioned to do so by a major Australian university.
Acceptance of such junk, belief-based pseudo-science into mainstream academic literature (albeit via the back door) cheapens all that responsible scientific research stands for, and has very real potential to do harm to the patients we provide clinical care for every day.
They say you pick your bmattles. This is one I’m prepared to fight.
The above post is solely the personal view of the author.
References
Judy Wilyman’s full thesis
Brian Martin’s commentary
University of Wollongong’s official response
Helen Petousis-Harris blog post
Judy Wilyman’s personal website
The Australian Editorial (unfortunately behind a paywall)
The Thinking Moms Revolution
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Grant Jacobs says
June 10, 2019 at 22:35
Hi,
Thanks for linking to my and Helen’s posts on this. There’s quite a bit more at Sciblogs too, including from Alison Campbell who writes bioBlog. Like you she has read Wilyman’s thesis. I started on the thesis, but didn’t get very far…! I admire both of you for reading it right through…
https://sciblogs.co.nz/?s=wilyman
There’s also a review of the thesis published in an academic journal (which, naturally enough, we reviewed). Let’s say they also found it wanting.
The university did set up a review of thesis examinations, but if I recall correctly they set it up in a way that avoided including the Wilyman thesis… I’ve a post on this somewhere. There’s also that in the initial review of Wilyman’s thesis, apparently one reviewer strongly rejected it & they had to find a new reviewer. You’d have wished that were a strong hint to kick the thesis upstairs, and check it’s sound.
The whole affair is odd, to say the least.
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Brian Martin says
June 12, 2019 at 18:42
Dear Kristin,
You can read about the processes that I and university officials used
to ensure the quality of Judy Wilyman’s thesis in “Defending academic
integrity”, https://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/17ijei.pdf
For a wider perspective, see Vaccination Panic in Australia,
https://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/18vpa/
The 2019 critique of the thesis, “PhD thesis opposing immunisation:
Failure of academic rigour with real-world consequences” is available
at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X18316955
Judy’s reply, “PhD thesis on vaccination policy: scholarly and
socially relevant”:
https://www.vaccinationdecisions.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Response-final-to-the-Vaccine-Article-by-Wiley-et-al190417.pdf
Regards,
Brian Martin
bmartin@uow.edu.au
http://www.bmartin.cc/
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