Look what we found.

• The Weiner Files

  The last few months haven’t been great for pediatric chiropractor and owner of Newtown Community Chiropractic, Nimrod Weiner. Tweet It all came to a head last week when his anti-vaccine “rants” were covered by our national media when The Australian newspaper and Radio National both took him to task over his public anti-vaccine lectures. The […]

  Posted on Aug 23.11 to alternative medicine, anti-vaccination, consumer information, dangerous woo, immunisation, information for parents   5 Comments   

• Antivax chiros and accountability – as evasive as a subluxation

  A few Thursdays ago, chiros in Australia copped a bollocking on Catalyst as Dr Maryanne Demasi turned a spotlight on their profession. Tweet And it wasn’t pretty. What resulted was examples of quackery, infighting between professional bodies and the revelation that chiro does not have an adverse events (AE) reporting system. You can watch the […]

  Posted on Jul 21.13 to alternative medicine, anti-vaccination, chiropractic, vaccination   16 Comments   

• Anti-vax chiropractor is okay ’cause it’s just his opinion

  A quick update on Nimrod Weiner from Newtown Community Chiropractic. Tweet I get emails. And recently I was reminded of one I got back in June which somehow slipped from my consciousness. With all the negative attention Nimrod has been receiving of late the response from some authorities has been, “we can’t respond unless someone […]

  Posted on Aug 29.11 to anti-vaccination, chiropractic   9 Comments   

• Chiropractors making more ridiculous claims

  Regular readers of this blog will be well aware of the trouble chiropractors have been getting into of late. Tweet The backlash from the BCA decision to sue Simon Singh back in 2009 resulted in a huge Streisand Effect for the profession. Attempting to silence Singh with legal chill had many knock-on effects including one […]

  Posted on Jan 19.11 to woo   6 Comments   

• The Wakefield-in-the-room

  Or: I’m not anti-vaccination, I just don’t recommend it. Tweet Hello friends! long time no bloggy-blog etc. Apologies, but there was this small thing called #TAMOz. Dunno if you’ve heard of it, but it completely took up my life for the last six months so everything else had to take a back seat. I apologise, […]

  Posted on Dec 04.10 to anti-vaccination, information for parents   42 Comments   

• Alternative allergy clinic under investigation by consumer watchdog

  A chain of alternative allergy clinics is to be investigated by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission for false, misleading and deceptive conduct. The ACCC statement of claim recently filed in Federal Court, says Advanced Allergy Elimination (AAE) and its director Paul Keir had breached the Trade Practices Act by falsely claiming the company can […]

  Posted on Aug 22.09 to alternative medicine   3 Comments