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Old August 21st 09, 01:59 AM posted to misc.health.alternative,misc.kids.breastfeeding,misc.kids.health,misc.kids.pregnancy,sci.med.nursing
Peter Bowditch
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Default Vaccine Challenge Remains Unchallenged

Peter Parry wrote:

On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:27:04 +0100, "john" wrote:


This letter by Dr Viera Scheibner, Principle Research Scientist (Rtd)
and now prominent public campaigner,


Another example of the logical fallacy of "argument from authority".

"Principal Research Scientist" and "Dr" is one presumes proclaimed to
add weight to her otherwise rather empty arguments. It would
therefore be appropriate to consider them in a bit more detail.

Firstly, she is not a Dr of medicine but a Geologist who gained her
PhD in 1964. Her most notable contribution to science was a paper on
"The Cretaceous and Jurassic Foraminifera of the Carpathian Klippen
Belt in Slovakia" and her specialty in Australia was the Cretaceous
and Permian Foraminifera of the Great Australian Basin in New South
Wales.

Scheibner claim to be a Principle Research Scientist concerns her
training and experience as a Geologist and her appointment at the
Geological Survey of New South Wales. She retired in 1987. She has
never published a scientific paper on the subject of vaccination (or
indeed any medical subject).

Her most recent award was in 1997, when she was awarded the "Bent
Spoon Award". This award is presented annually to the Australian
"perpetrator of the most preposterous piece of pseudoscientific
piffle":


Actually, her most recent award was the 1999 Anus Maximus Award.

http://www.ratbags.com/rsoles/histor...1999awards.htm

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