Diplomatic Immunity

Featured image: HPV vaccine does not destroy fertility, it helps protect it

HPV vaccine does not destroy fertility, it helps protect it

Helen Petousis Harris • Feb 14, 2017

As we enter a new year and school-based vaccination programmes get cracking the recycled crazy myths raise their ill-founded serpent heads again. This week it is the notion that Gardasil causes infertility by inducing Primary Ovarian Failure/insufficient (POF). It is popping up on social media – again. The fact is that Gardasil does not cause infertility. By infertility I refer to the … Read More

Featured image: If only there had been a vaccine…

If only there had been a vaccine…

Helen Petousis Harris • Nov 23, 2016

“Only clean water and antibiotics have had an impact on childhood death and disease that is equal to that of vaccines” – World Health Organization (WHO) In the 20th century, when most of you reading this were born, nearly 1.7 billion people died from infectious diseases. Most of the diseases in the sobering infographic linked above are … Read More

Featured image: PHARMAC changes to vaccines – people are the winners

PHARMAC changes to vaccines – people are the winners

Helen Petousis Harris • Jul 28, 2016

Today PHARMAC announced their changes to funded vaccines. Basically they did what PHARMAC do, and within their given budget they negotiated the best deal they could with the suppliers to prevent as much disease as possible. After all, that is what we want them to do on our behalf. So who wins and who loses? The reality is, that like … Read More

Featured image: Nordic Cochrane, the medical regulator and anti-vax hypocrisy

Nordic Cochrane, the medical regulator and anti-vax hypocrisy

Helen Petousis Harris • Jun 23, 2016

Last month members of the Nordic Cochrane posted a letter of complaint to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) on their website. Does this mean that members of the Nordic Cochrane have uncovered previously undiscovered evidence about the HPV vaccine? No! The vaccine has an excellent safety profile and as of todays date the scientific community are unanimous about that fact. But … Read More

Featured image: NZ on the measles merry-go-round. Why?

NZ on the measles merry-go-round. Why?

Helen Petousis Harris • May 27, 2016

It is raining and we are having another measles outbreak because a non-immune someone went overseas, picked up the most contagious virus known to infect man and brought it back home to the Waikato. They then spread it to others who were not immune to measles (generally unvaccinated). Controlling spread of measles takes enormous public health resources, every case must … Read More

Featured image: Whimsical witchcraft not immunisation

Whimsical witchcraft not immunisation

Helen Petousis Harris • May 23, 2016

There is a measles outbreak in the Waikato and folks are presenting certificates of homeopathic prophylaxis against measles as proof of immunity, to avoid exclusion from school. It is frightening to think that the holder of the certificate below is under the impression they have protection against the listed epidemic diseases.   Certificate of immunity to infectious diseases Homeopathic … Read More

Featured image: Wilyman’s ‘thesis’ from a relativistic viewpoint?

Wilyman’s ‘thesis’ from a relativistic viewpoint?

Helen Petousis Harris • Jan 15, 2016

“It’s rather like a sociologist who insists that jet aircraft remain aloft only because of a conspiracy between aeronautical engineers and greedy airlines. Perhaps Wollongong already has someone working on such a thesis.” (Editorial, The Australian) The antivax rant accepted as a PhD thesis by University of Wollongong is defended by the student’s supervisor Professor Brian Martin. Read More

Featured image: A PhD By Stealth (BS) – What are University of Wollongong thinking?

A PhD By Stealth (BS) – What are University of Wollongong thinking?

Helen Petousis Harris • Jan 14, 2016

Wollongong University has accepted a Doctoral thesis so fatally flawed even an arrested Koala could spot the shortcomings. The offending work is entitled “A critical analysis of the Australian government’s rationale for its vaccination policy” and well established antivaxer Judy Wilyman was recently accepted as fulfilling the requirements for the award of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Read More

Featured image: HPV “vaccination syndrome” – latest investigation

HPV “vaccination syndrome” – latest investigation

Helen Petousis Harris • Nov 06, 2015

Following on from extensive hysteria and bad press in many countries, including Denmark and Japan, the Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) investigated the issue that’s been dubbed “HPV vaccination syndrome”. They have concluded that scientific evidence DOES NOT support that HPV vaccines cause complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) or Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) … Read More