Diplomatic Immunity

Featured image: Who is Levi Quackenboss and what is she saying about vaccine debates?

Who is Levi Quackenboss and what is she saying about vaccine debates?

Helen Petousis Harris • Nov 02, 2017

Quackenboss is a vaccine denier with a history of internet bullying and going loopy when someone says something positive about vaccines. She hides nameless and faceless behind a blog, or captured in a state of self-glorification during an interview with HealthNut News. I know not her name, qualifications, or profession because they do not appear to be provided but she has plenty … Read More

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Featured image: Aluminium adjuvants, immune dysfunction, and the AV syndrome scammers

Aluminium adjuvants, immune dysfunction, and the AV syndrome scammers

Helen Petousis Harris • Sep 15, 2017

Vaccine scammers I call them. They prey on people with a sick kid. Perhaps they want to flog dietary supplements or bleach enemas but today I refer to the proponents of a variety of fake syndromes, which they claim have been induced by vaccines and/or vaccine adjuvants*. The most infamous vaccine scammer in this case is Andrew Wakefield, but this … Read More

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Featured image: In defence of the tamariki

In defence of the tamariki

Helen Petousis Harris • May 24, 2017

Dr Lance O’Sullivan I salute you. Kaitaia is a town in the far north of NZ, warm people, lovely beaches. Sadly immunisation coverage is low, infectious disease rates are high. Doctors like Lance O’Sullivan work their guts out to improve the health of the people they serve, including treating kids for illnesses that they should never have to suffer. Read More

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Featured image: WHO VigiBase study does not find HPV vaccine unsafe.

WHO VigiBase study does not find HPV vaccine unsafe.

Helen Petousis Harris • Mar 03, 2017

A new study used the World health Organization’s global database of reports of adverse events associated with the use of a medicine (VigiBase), including vaccines, to look at reporting patterns after HPV vaccine. The cases in VigiBase are collected for 125 member states, including NZ, who participate in the WHOs International Drug Monitoring Programme. The data from all the member … Read More

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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

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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

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