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Vaccination akin to child rape claim

Posted by: 2UE | 8 February, 2011 - 11:03 AM
Claims child vaccination is akin to child rape - Have Your Say!

How dare anti-vaccination campaigner Meryl Dorey claim vaccination is akin to child rape? Tracey Spicer reveals to David Oldfield the outlandish statements, and Hetty Johnson calls for an apology from Dorey.


 

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  • its not the pinprick,it`s the stuff that is injected into the child, perhaps you should research the ingredients of the vacine before making stupid comments and when did you and bill gates get to be medical experts , I bet this will not get posted

    tony Wednesday 16 February, 2011 - 10:36 AM

  • Good on you Tracey. This Vaccination Network wheedled its way into being into the parenting information network many years ago when I was the editor of Parents magazine. Finally she is getting her come uppance... it needed the popular media to expose her!.
    Well done.

    Carol Fallows Wednesday 9 February, 2011 - 12:19 PM

  • Dorey claims to have checked the dictionary and that the act of rape involves power, not sex.

    I'd like a full reference for that definition before I'd believe a word of her notpology.

    Andy Wednesday 9 February, 2011 - 2:57 AM

  • "Rape is also now recognised as an element of the crime of genocide when committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a targeted group."
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_rape
    This is not to say I agree with the analogy because I don't, however I understood where Meryl Dorey was coming from when she posted it to the Facebook website. Many others did not. Tracey Spicer is incorrect to state that the post had been removed, since it has not (at least as yet) Ms Spicer also failed to read the entire apology made by Meryl Dorey. Pro-vaccination believers are always on about "misinformation", "emotional" & "selectively quoting" yet I see it happen on pro-vaccine websites all the time, and now from journalists.
    "A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar." - by Franklin, Benjamin

    Carolyn Wednesday 9 February, 2011 - 12:24 AM

  • Like most advocates of alternative medicine I think Meryl is blind with ideology. Sure she says she has studied vaccines for over twenty years but quite clearly that study has been a long examination into verifying her own bias.

    Tracy spicer has done a great job of highlighting the madness and ignorance that is at the core of meryls views. Some people have criticized Tracy of not being impartial, I used to work with Tracy many years ago and she is a formidable journalist but I think in this case she is reacting to Meryl the same way any intelligent person should, with utter contempt.

    Ryan Wednesday 9 February, 2011 - 12:22 AM

  • Meryl Dorey was once the go-to person for vaccination (mis)information in the Australian media. Thanks to journalists like Tracey exposing her nonsense, this "false balance" is being stopped, thus halting the spread of dangerous misinformation about vaccination. Kids get sick because of the falsehoods spread by people like Meryl Dorey. Congratulations Tracey.

    DrRachie Tuesday 8 February, 2011 - 4:29 PM

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