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Australian anti-vaxxer wank!
(Anonymous)
2011-12-13 08:20 am UTC (link)

One for UFB, obviously.

The Woodford Folk Festival, a music/alternative culture festival a couple of hours north of Brisbane, has invited (not for the first time) notorious anti-vaccination advocate Meryl Dorey to speak, billing her as an expert.

This ... does not go down well. Most notably, Mia Freedman, former editor of Cosmopolitan, now a blogger, journalist and vaccination advocate, hosts a post about this on her blog.

http://www.mamamia.com.au/news/woodford-folk-festival-allows-dangerous-anti-vax-woman-to-speak/

A WILD MERYL DOREY APPEARS! Along with some of her supporters, although it's difficult to say how many because they keep posting under different names.

Wank ensues. (Along with some people advocating violence against anti-vaxxers, wishing death on their children, some gender policing about Dorey's appearance and some vague classism about her background as a farmer's wife.)

The post was later updated to include a brief interview with the festival's executive director. It goes... interestingly:

Q: Does the Festival feel it appropriate to give a platform to a woman who has been officially discredited as any type of vaccination expert?

Bill: Look, I’m not going to get into that. There are a lot of discredited artists and talkers and singers and songwriters at the Festival and we’re about giving a voice to a diverse range … something like 400 artists there.

More hilariously, yet also symptomatic of something or other, the Festival also includes a homeopathic first aid clinic: http://woodfordfolkfestival.woodfordia.com/index.php?id=94 (How does that even work? Do they apply a small part of the band-aid to the wound?)

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