Anti-vaccine chiropractors 9

The Chiropractic Board of Australia has had enough:

“We will not tolerate registered chiropractors giving misleading or unbalanced advice to patients, or providing advice or care that is not in the patient’s best interests,” chairman Phillip Donato said.

Dr Donato said chiropractors should only provide evidence-based treatment and anyone with concerns should report them. [Sydney Morning Herald August 9 2013]

This episode has a few stars. You’ll need to bear with me. I must thank an anonymous commenter for pointing out to me that I missed something in post #6.

Alfie Dimalanta is a board member of the Chiropractors’ Association of Australia‘s Victoria branch, and a member of the Australian Spinal Research Foundation. He practices his business at Point Cook Chiropractic, in Victoria. From his website bio:

I have an interesting post from Dimalanta’s open Facebook profile, but, as it’s a little more complex, I’ll start with his professional Facebook page.

Do your homework (sigh), with the queen of anti-vaccinationism, Barbara Loe Fisher of the NVIC:

Vaccines don’t really cause autism, unless they do. Nothing screams “education” like a meme based on a lie:

This one deserves a gilt frame. This is so prestigious it must go thither to the billiard room. I give you…Child Health Safety, and their classic hit, Vaccines didn’t save us.

Anyway, back to Dimalanta’s open Facebook profile for a more recent example. Remember, he is a board member of the CAA VIC:

50 REASONS NOT TO VACCINATE YOUR KIDS? FROM WORLD TRUTH TV?

It may as well be over 9000. That’s a really bad anti-vaccine post from a really bad conspiracy website. But, hang on. THREE PEOPLE LIKED IT? Who would do such a thing?

oh crap

Andrew Victor Smith is a chiropractic assistant at Nervana Chiropractic. He is a chiro student at Murdoch University. He has been a bit of a semi-regular on anti-vaccine Facebook pages, such as the Australian Vaccination Network.

The next one made my eyes bulge. Billy Chow is a national board member of the Chiropractors’ Association of Australia, and practices his business at Vitality and Wellbeing Centre in Adelaide. Billy Chow liked that post from that conspiracy website indicating that there are almost over 9000 reasons not to vaccinate your kid. “Head of Public Education” for the CAA.  This guy:

Holy crap you guys. Holy crap. You have some work to do.