Zanna
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A public seminar on immunisation in Perth was forced to close early on Monday night after anti-vaccination activists hijacked the event and called doctors liars.
Organisers of the Telethon Kids Institute event had to stop a question-and-answer session after constant interruptions by the protesters.
The seminar was meant to give people, particularly new parents, a safe forum to ask questions about vaccines. But a few people in the crowd of about 150 interjected as institute director Jonathan Carapetis and infectious diseases experts attempted to answer questions from the floor.
Professor Carapetis said only two people had the chance to ask legitimate questions and everything else was drowned out. “We went on for as long as we could, which was about half an hour of them yelling and screaming, but speakers were paid such disrespect and everyone else in the audience was intimidated,” he said.
Now, I don't know about you, but even if I supported anti-vaxxers this would be the way I'd go about it. Instead of trying to push for more research to be done as to the safety of the vaccines, they barged into a convention, which is supposed to be there to encourage open conversation, and tried enforce their own views instead of engaging in healthy debate.
Source: https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/w...n-activists-crash-perth-immunisation-seminar/