Open Letter
26 September 2017
To Vice-Chancellor, University of Wollongong (UOW), Australia, Professor Paul Wellings Copied to Professor’s Heather Yeatman and Alison Jones, and 60 UOW academics and staff
Dear Professor Wellings, Australia is currently implementing legislation regarding vaccination policies that will make this country a medical police state. This situation could not have happened if the University of Wollongong (UOW) had maintained academic integrity in the debate on vaccination. But instead the UOW has allowed industry-associated lobby groups to promote false information about vaccination research – both on its website and in the mainstream media – using the UOW logo. This disinformation campaign using the UOW logo has been promoted by Dr. Matthew Berryman, Dr. John Cunningham, Professor Heather Yeatman, and Professor Alison Jones.
The University also requested that ~60 UOW academics sign their name to the false information provided by Heather Yeatman in her promotion of immunisation on the UOW website. Heather Yeatman has never researched vaccination or immunisation policies. She is an expert in nutrition not immunisation or immunology. Her comments on the UOW website contradict the in-depth research presented in my PhD on this topic, also published on the UOW website. Promoting immunisation with the personal opinion of a non-expert in immunisation is a breach of academic integrity by UOW. Here is a link to my interview with Sarah Westall from the US program, Business Game Changers, that describes the political processes that have facilitated this situation. It is titled ‘The Vaccination Debate: Let’s get Serious’ and it has been broadcast nationally throughout the US, Canada, Hawaii and Alaska. The University of Wollongong is running a disinformation campaign by allowing UOW academics and industry-associated lobby group activists to suppress the scientific debate on vaccination in the media by presenting their false and misleading personal opinions – using the UOW logo. This has been achieved by adopting the following strategies:
- Allowing a UOW staff member, Dr. Mathew Berryman (no qualifications in vaccination science or policy) to use comments from an industry-associated lobby group blog (ReasonableHank – Australian Skeptics Inc) to present false information about my UOW research in the mainstream media (June 2012).
- Allowing an industry-associated lobby group activist, Dr. John Cunningham (who has no involvement with UOW and is an orthopaedic spinal surgeon in Melbourne), to make an anonymous complaint of ‘allegations of academic misconduct’ to UOW in 2014 about my research on the whooping cough vaccine completed in 2006. This was 8 years after the research was examined and awarded a High Distinction by UOW academics. The UOW apologised to me for the misuse of its complaint procedures and stated that the investigation was unwarranted. But this information was not corrected in a press release and it has been used to smear my reputation in the media and on Wikipedia. I am unable to change the false comments and opinions presented on Wikipedia.
- In January 2016, just after UOW published my PhD on the UOW website (11 January 2016), John Cunningham,made further false and derogatory comments about the assessment of my PhD in the Australian mainstream media (Murdoch’s News Ltd press – 20 January 2016). He was then awarded an Order of Australia medal (OAM) on 26 January 2016 for “Immunisation and Science”. John Cunningham does not have any special qualifications in immunisation or publications on vaccination/policy or immunology.
- One week after my PhD was published on the UOW website in January 2016, Professor Heather Yeatman, (expertise nutrition) was permitted to promote false information about immunisation on the UOW website that was signed by 60 other academics – none of whom have done in-depth independent research on vaccination science or policy. Heather Yeatman does not have any special qualifications in immunisation or publications on this topic and she has promoted false information on vaccines using the UOW logo.
- In March 2016, Professor Alison Jones (expertise toxicology) was a co-author of a paper that attempts to limit the academic freedom of researchers to scrutinise the science of vaccination. This paper is titled ‘Public Health and the Necessary Limits of Academic Freedom?’ In this paper Jones attempts to argue that the scientific debate should be curtailed in consideration of possible adverse events to human health. This is exactly the opposite to the recognised norms of evidence-based medicine that require full scrutiny of the scientific literature by all stakeholders in order to protect human health.
A medical police state can only occur when there is a lack of transparency and accountability in government policies and in academic institutions. We are seeing this situation develop in Australia today with the suppression of the scientific debate on vaccination. UOW has breached its charter to promote expert opinions of vaccination on its website and to allow academic debate of this scientific issue by all stakeholders in the issue. This is aided by the misconduct and fraudulent research that is occurring at the US CDC – the body that recommends vaccines for national vaccination programs. It is not the parents who are investigating these policies that are committing fraud and misconduct – it is our government bodies and national institutions. This is occurring as governments implement mandatory vaccination policies without justification in Australia. Human health is at risk if universities are allowing lobby groups with vested interests in government policy to use their procedures to promote false information on vaccines to the public using the university logo.
Yours Sincerely,
Dr. Judy Wilyman Bachelor of Science, University of NSW Diploma of Education (Science), University of Wollongong Master of Science (Population Health), Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Wollongong. PhD in The Science and Politics of the Australian Government’s Vaccination Program, UOW School of Social Science, Media and Communication (re-named the School of Humanities and Social Inquiry in 2014).
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Irene, like you, I had all my vaccinations many years ago. I trusted the scientists and doctors then. With the advent of computers and advanced technology, we can now do research for ourselves.In the last few years I have come across Agenda 21 , which many countries signed up to at a Conference in Lima.This Agenda is very worrying because it exposes what the UN and NWO are planning for the rest of the world.Depopulation is one of their projects and what better way to do it than by vaccinations?Look at the Ziki virus in South America, which caused the birth of many malformed babies, AFTER the population was vaccinated. For decades prior to that…no defects.Google Agenda 21 and Agenda 30.I do not trust Big Pharma today…there is too much money involved.
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Hi Irene if you read the comment above yours by Lex Stewart you might find some very reasoned logic.Editor
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It is a sad reflection on the state of modern public debate that in order to be listened to with my opinions and contribution I need to state up front that I am not an “anti-vaxxer”, although that is what I have been branded by daring to ask questions. I gained first class Hons and University Medal in Chemical Engineering in 1972 from Sydney University i.e. I value good science. And modern vaccination practices are not being directed by objective science. Some vaccinations have value in that the benefits outweigh the risks, but my problem is that the cost-benefit or risk-benefit analyses have not been done, or at least have not been published. I was Chairman of the Intergovernmental Committee that recommended circa 1982 to Australian governments (State and Federal) the removal of Lead from Petrol and it was I who chose 91 as the Octane. I could do that ONLY AFTER we did a full “cost-benefit” analysis to weigh up all the economic and environmental factors. So when my son then 7 got leukemia in 1982 I did lots of research in a local hospital library. Inter a lot of alia, I read that one researcher proposed the hypothesis that the recent huge increases in cancer could be due to the large increases in childhood vaccinations; and he wrote that it would require 20 years of research and data to prove or disprove his hypothesis. And so from then on before allowing any of my children to be vaccinated at school or before me submitting to free vaccinations provided by my employer I have merely asked the question “Granted that vaccinations have a NON-ZERO chance of damaging, even killing, my child or me, then please show me the SCIENTIFIC evaluation of the relative risks — i.e. what is the benefit to society (many thousands of children or adults) that outweighs and which would justify this NON-ZERO risk to my children (or me)?”. Time and again I received foboffs to contact Health Departments, who admitted that they had NO scientific evaluations, but tried to subdue me with that tired old line which I paraphrase as, “We are Doctors. Trust us. We know best.” Because I could on multiple enquiries receive NO scientific evaluations, then throughout my children’s childhood (the youngest is now 32) they received NO vaccinations. I am not against vaccinations. I am not an “anti-vaxxer”; I am merely a concerned parent trying to do “due dililgence” and make a scientifically-informed decision. I dont like being bullied. I am a logical, objective scientist. The Pro-Vaxxers in my view have been illogical and lacking in scientific objectivity. There is no doubt that vaccines can in many circumstances be EFFECTIVE. However merely arguing effectiveness without considering side-effects and “collateral damage” is unbalanced. To give a silly example reductio ad absurdum – if my objective is to remove weeds from my garden, then one method would be to use a nuclear weapon – there would be no weeds left! But lots of bad side-effects.
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I was lucky to have been born when vaccinations were available, though I remember the polio epidemic, and whooping cough. . 50 years ago I was working in the Middle East when a Yellow Fever scare came through. I was again lucky. I managed to get vaccinated. I admit to passing out after the vaccination – but I didn’t get Yellow Fever! My experience with the lunatic unqualified fringe is restricted to the ‘fluoride’ ‘debate’. One classic CEO of an organisation when researched turned out to be a husband and wife team with no qualifications whatsoever. No relevant qualifications seems to be the problem here, although the UOW does not appear to have come off at all well. There is a lesson here for any would be PHD candidate. The first thing to check is the integrity of the intended University! I am as old as the biblical Methusalah thanks to vaccinations. Methusalah’s culture computed age by lunar months!
The vaccination ‘debate’ will continue but those without qualifications in the area should be excluded. A person qualified in nutrition for instance is a sick joke.
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I cannot follow the vaccinators’ line of thinking.They say that if a child is not vaccinated, he can infect all those that are? Does ‘that tell us that the vaccinations really aren’t any good?Also, why are they letting all these immigrants in without them being vaccinated.They bring many diseases with them, which threaten OUR children, but no! their welfare payments aren’t withdrawn if they refuse vaccination on ‘cultural’ grounds.Just what is behind it? The NWO, the UN and Agenda 21/30.Look it up .
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This Vaccine controversy has a long history of Medical Researchers claiming that VACCINES are ineffective and work “hand in hand” with EUGENICS. vaccines are the CASH COW for the BIG PHARMA BILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY! The American CDC has repeatedly reported the number of “added ingredients’ in vaccines but the CONTROLLING CORRUPTED MEDICAL FRATERNITY WILL NOT DIVULGE THE TRUE EXTENT OF HARMFUL SIDE AFFECTS .
Here in Australia the Minister for Health for sure is getting pressure from the American counterparts .BIG BROTHER SHOULD NOT BE INTERFERING IN OUR HEALTH SYSTEM SO KINDLY “RACK OFF”
To ALL AUSSIES who are not BRAINWASHED by the Corruption within the Health Industry
start to use the AUSTRALIAN CONSTITUTION AS OUR GUIDE WHICH WAS FORMED TO PROTECT THE AUSTRALIAN PEOPLE AGAINST CORRUPTION UNDER SECTION 51(xxiii) CLEARLY STATING THAT IF THE GOVERNMENT BY FORCE ATTEMPTS TO PUT IN PLACE ANY LAW WHICH IS NOT IN THE INTERESTS OF THE AUSTRALIAN PEOPLE
THAT LAW CAN BE CHALLENGED UNDER SEC 51 (xxiii).
Thereby the “NO JAB NO PAY” by the former PM Mr Tony Abbott MUST BE REPEALED IF IT WAS MADE INTO LAW AND IF NOT WELFARE MUST BE ADJUSTED AND BACKPAID.
The Government under SECTION 51 (xxiii) HAS NO LAWFUL RIGHT TO DECLARE MANDATORY VACCINATIONS!
Any Groups out there TAKE UP THE CHALLENGE.
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