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In what seems like a match made in hell and should send shivers down the spine of any rational sensible science based person, the AVN is teaming up with super quack homeopath Fran Sheffield to host a webinar entitled “The Homeopathic Treatment of Autism”.
For the first time, it is free to register for this webinar which is sponsored by the AVN and scheduled for December 2nd from 7 – 9 pm AEST.
I encourage you to sign up here and consider live tweeting the webinar as it happens, using the hashtag #autismAVN. If you do plan to live tweet, leave a message so I can gather up your tweets and publish them as a blog post after the event.
By the way, I was alerted to this event via the Homeopathy Plus e-newsletter which you can also sign up to here.
Readers will recall that the AVN and their president Meryl Dorey were awarded the 2009 Australian Skeptics Bent Spoon award as “the perpetrator(s) of the most preposterous piece of paranormal or pseudo-scientific piffle”. You can read all the details of the reasons why they were given this prestigious award here.
Fran Sheffield has also had a complaint lodged about some hocus-pocus claims made on her website to the TGA in Australia. One regarding nonsense pertaining to the effectiveness of homeopathic immunisation for meningococcal disease is currently languishing with the TGA as they go about dealing with threats to public safety at a glacial pace.
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Comments ( 13 )
Peter Bowditch added these pithy words on Dec 01 09 at 9:39 pmUnfortunately I will be doing something else at the time, although I might be able to check in from time to time. If I can’t make it I am sure that others can channel my thoughts and opinions.
Sean Reynolds Massey-Reed added these pithy words on Dec 02 09 at 6:50 amI’m working at the time but will have it going on my second monitor
BastardSheep added these pithy words on Dec 03 09 at 12:46 pmFor those who may have missed it, 30 minutes in (to the minute) it ended prematurely due to “technical issues”. It has been rescheduled for the same time next Wednesday. You can also follow it on twitter by watching the tag #autismAVN.
podblack added these pithy words on Dec 04 09 at 4:30 pmLet’s have a pseudoscience bingo party!!
It’ll be on next Wednesday – shall we all get together and play?
Todd W. added these pithy words on Dec 05 09 at 3:48 amI would love to join, but it’ll be 4am for me.
Maggie added these pithy words on Dec 05 09 at 5:41 pmHey @Todd, I am subscribed which means I can watch afterwards. I can send you my logins if you really want to watch later.
I will live tweet too.
Rach
Bastard Sheep added these pithy words on Dec 06 09 at 6:26 amRegister for the upcoming second attempt at the webinar here:
jewlie added these pithy words on Dec 06 09 at 1:08 pmtoo much to mention!!!!
Bastard Sheep added these pithy words on Dec 09 09 at 8:18 pmA few of us livetweeted it which can be searched upon here.
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23autismAVN
Also had a skype chat going, it was great for keeping the sanity. I’ll set up a proper one ahead of time (with a web link so you don’t need to find one of us to be added) for the next one which is apparently going to be around February. They have quite a number in mind so they will be quite regular from that date.
Todd W. added these pithy words on Dec 10 09 at 2:23 am@Bastard Sheep
Thanks for providing the twitter link. Interesting read. I’m very curious about the actual presentation, though judging from the tweets, I fear for my neurons.
Paul added these pithy words on Dec 10 09 at 6:42 amThanks y’all.
