So much news is coming in these days, it can feel hard to keep up. This month, in addition to providing a precis of national and international developments relevant to our mission, we have a number of exciting events to announce – please get your diary out!
First, please claim the date of 21 through 23 November for ASF’s annual Progress through Science and Freedom conference, to be held in Sydney at UNSW’s Kensington campus. Our conference program committee is putting together an event that looks to be our most exciting and informative annual conference yet. Don’t miss it! Ticketing will open in another few months.
Two months prior to our annual conference, on September 10, we will be screening the documentary film Covid Collateral at the Fox Studios Entertainment Quarter near Moore Park in Sydney. The film is straightforward and does not over-claim, making this a perfect opportunity to bring a friend who may be questioning but not fully aware of what went on during the covid era. Mark your calendar and start to think about who in your circle of friends or family you might bring along. Tickets available soon!
Finally, in just over a month, please join us at Sydney’s Masonic Centre on the evening of Monday, 7 July from 6 PM for a long-form discussion over a light dinner of Australia’s cost of living problem: does it really exist, and if so where did it come from and what should we do about it? This event is being organised in conjunction with The Australian Dialogues and will feature ASF’s Gigi Foster as MC. Discounts are available for ASF members and affiliates. Register your interest here to get tickets and to be kept informed as speaker details are pinned down.
In the recent academic literature, we have the customary litany of studies about the harms of the covid shots (e.g., here, here (critiquing the claim that millions of lives have been saved by these products), here, and here). We also have Australian agencies tasked with investigating a possible link between the covid shots and really bad health outcomes doing a shoddy job, as explained recently by one of Australia’s courageous real journalists, Rebekah Barnett. Barnett has also described the lack of following up of potential lethal side effects of the covid shots that is contained in a recent FOIA’ed bunch of documents from the Therapeutic Goods Administration.
An announcement has been made of a plan to destroy patient data from the QoVax study, to which you can voice your opposition here – and check out the Courier Mail on Saturday 31 May for an advertisement drawing attention to this plan and offering help to study participants who want to fight it. If you or someone you know was a study participant, please visit here for more information.
In international news, many will know that the WHO Pandemic Treaty was approved a few days ago in Geneva, soon after which the Pandemic Agreement was approved – though not before having been significantly defanged from its original version. Still, the Aligned Council of Australia (ACA) has a few ideas about what you can do if you don’t like these developments (also see here, courtesy of Stand Up Australia) and ACA is also running a webinar about all this on 4 June to which you can sign up here.
On the plus side, in the US, much of the mainstream covid vaccine narrative was shredded at a major Senate hearing (watch here, courtesy of Raphael Lataster whose work was drawn on in the hearing, or follow Senator Ron Johnson’s coverage here), and the Make America Healthy Again report was released, charting a path away from commercial interests and towards actual health in the management of American food. Also, the HHS took the covid shots off the recommended vaccination schedule for healthy children and pregnant women, much to the dismay of entrenched health industry interests, and US President Trump signed an executive order to stop federal funding to gain-of-function research while his federal prosecutor goes after Wikimedia for “information manipulation”.
If you’re planning to head to Europe later this year, consider dropping in on this conference on medical ethics in the Netherlands in October.
For entertainment this month, you may enjoy watching this un-approved TEDx talk whose story is told here by Maryanne Demasi, and consider picking up a copy of this new book, edited and with chapters by many people whose names you will know. This film documents the struggles of participants in the early covid shot trials and their formation of the REACT19 organisation.
Finally, if you are not yet an affiliate member of Australians for Science and Freedom, please consider joining. In addition to discounted tickets on our events, membership in our all-volunteer organisation brings you the satisfaction of knowing you are supporting ASF’s work, plus inclusion on the mailing list for our monthly Members’ Forums – where each month, we platform people in Australia doing work aligned with our mission, via short presentations and then a Q&A session with our members. To give you a sense of the value of these monthly meetings, consider that since the inception of these Forums, our members have heard from and interacted directly with the following people in the Forums:
- Julian Gillespie
- Clare Pain
- Belinda Hawkins
- Murray Hancock
- Katie Ashby-Koppens
- James Nuzzo
- Debbie Garratt
- Paul Frijters
- Brady Gunn
- Dara MacDonald
- Rinat Strahlhofer
- Kate Mason
- Debra Yuille
- Joel Pryor
- Petra Bueskens
- Gerry Brady
- Sally Price
- Ros Nealon-Cook
- Rosemary Marshall
- Jason Strecker
The fight for sanity, health and joy continues. Thank you for being part of our community and helping to lead the way.
Gigi Foster
