And this is a legal argument to nullify and dismiss any of their findings and recommendations.....
Dr. J. Rozencwajg, NMD. "The greatest enemy of any science is a closed mind". www.naturamedica.webs.com
A Letter From Fran Sheffield
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Dr. Joe Rozencwajg, NMD
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Irene de Villiers
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Re: A Letter From Fran Sheffield
Dear Fran,
Glad to hear that and I sympathize with the harassment. (I am myself being harassed for the second time. The first was in 2003, which I succeeded in defending and being cleared within two months. The second started 4 Sept last year and they still have me dangling, in that I sent a written answer and the ball's STILL in their court with no response yet. I too will not play dead for their pleasure.)
What helped me: Their complaints about my website articles fell apart because I pointed out that we have Freedom of Speech in USA and that the articles fall under that, regardless what opinions they carry, liked or otherwise. Apparently they had forgotten that little detail called Freedom of Speech and were going about judging my opinions as if they were personal recommendations to someone.
According to Wikipedia (hardly the experts on anything but possibly worth a follow-up here), Australia is a signatory to the 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948, which provides, in Article 19, that:
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers...
except that Australia insisted on one reservation to Article 19 namely "insofar as it might be held to affect their systems of regulating and licensing broadcasting".
So maybe you can also use the Freedom of Speech Principle. Depends whether they can interpret a website article as "broadcasting to be regulated and licensed" - not that the internet had been dreamed up back then so clearly that was not a concern at the time.
My other thought: This is not about what is right or reasonable or scientifically correct (even though it should be) - it's about what is legal to say or do where you are residing - per the laws of your province/country.
That is, unless you really WANT to engage in "civil disobedience" to achieve what is right, reasonable and correct, regardless of current law.
At the end of this - whatever they decide - it CANNOT be relevant if the decision is anti-homeopathy, as they had no expertise in the decision group to decide anything of the sort - and also you have a right to your opinion, and to publish it (unless there is a specific law or local code against that in the case of vaccines - I'd not put that past them, but I'd check on it, if you did not do so already.) You can go on the offensive more easily, and turn the tables, if you know exactly where you stand legally.
Sock it to them!!!
Only greedy, ignorant, closed-minded cowards attack a profession they know nothing about!
Note Joe's tagline from Einstein:
"The greatest enemy of any science is a closed mind"
I'd only throw the references at them IF you cannot stand on freedom of speech alone. I'd make them prove it is not freedom of speech first.
Namaste,
Irene
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Irene de Villiers, B.Sc AASCA MCSSA D.I.Hom/D.Vet.Hom.
P.O. Box 4703 Spokane WA 99220.
www.angelfire.com/fl/furryboots/clickhere.html (Veterinary Homeopath.)
"Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt one doing it."
Glad to hear that and I sympathize with the harassment. (I am myself being harassed for the second time. The first was in 2003, which I succeeded in defending and being cleared within two months. The second started 4 Sept last year and they still have me dangling, in that I sent a written answer and the ball's STILL in their court with no response yet. I too will not play dead for their pleasure.)
What helped me: Their complaints about my website articles fell apart because I pointed out that we have Freedom of Speech in USA and that the articles fall under that, regardless what opinions they carry, liked or otherwise. Apparently they had forgotten that little detail called Freedom of Speech and were going about judging my opinions as if they were personal recommendations to someone.
According to Wikipedia (hardly the experts on anything but possibly worth a follow-up here), Australia is a signatory to the 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948, which provides, in Article 19, that:
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers...
except that Australia insisted on one reservation to Article 19 namely "insofar as it might be held to affect their systems of regulating and licensing broadcasting".
So maybe you can also use the Freedom of Speech Principle. Depends whether they can interpret a website article as "broadcasting to be regulated and licensed" - not that the internet had been dreamed up back then so clearly that was not a concern at the time.
My other thought: This is not about what is right or reasonable or scientifically correct (even though it should be) - it's about what is legal to say or do where you are residing - per the laws of your province/country.
That is, unless you really WANT to engage in "civil disobedience" to achieve what is right, reasonable and correct, regardless of current law.
At the end of this - whatever they decide - it CANNOT be relevant if the decision is anti-homeopathy, as they had no expertise in the decision group to decide anything of the sort - and also you have a right to your opinion, and to publish it (unless there is a specific law or local code against that in the case of vaccines - I'd not put that past them, but I'd check on it, if you did not do so already.) You can go on the offensive more easily, and turn the tables, if you know exactly where you stand legally.
Sock it to them!!!
Only greedy, ignorant, closed-minded cowards attack a profession they know nothing about!
Note Joe's tagline from Einstein:
"The greatest enemy of any science is a closed mind"
I'd only throw the references at them IF you cannot stand on freedom of speech alone. I'd make them prove it is not freedom of speech first.
Namaste,
Irene
REPLY TO: only
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Irene de Villiers, B.Sc AASCA MCSSA D.I.Hom/D.Vet.Hom.
P.O. Box 4703 Spokane WA 99220.
www.angelfire.com/fl/furryboots/clickhere.html (Veterinary Homeopath.)
"Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt one doing it."
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Maria Bohle
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Re: A Letter From Fran Sheffield
Pauline, you have given us some good information. Perhaps if the homeopathic community world wide sent out some letters?
You said: "Homeopathy Working committee of which there is not one Homeopath involved in even the discussions and nor will they let our Australian Register of Homeopaths even have representation in any committee that may present information to this working committee which is an off shoot of the National Health and Medical Research Council NHMRC and is headed also by the CMO. "
That is shameful who can we write letters to? Let's let Australia know the world is watching them! Please give us good info who to write to and who are the layers above these decision makers.
Our homeopathic community is coming together (slowly, but it is happening) with the European Standards for Education, etc. If we do not work together we will indeed continue Hahnemann's legacy of persecution.
warmly, Maria
You said: "Homeopathy Working committee of which there is not one Homeopath involved in even the discussions and nor will they let our Australian Register of Homeopaths even have representation in any committee that may present information to this working committee which is an off shoot of the National Health and Medical Research Council NHMRC and is headed also by the CMO. "
That is shameful who can we write letters to? Let's let Australia know the world is watching them! Please give us good info who to write to and who are the layers above these decision makers.
Our homeopathic community is coming together (slowly, but it is happening) with the European Standards for Education, etc. If we do not work together we will indeed continue Hahnemann's legacy of persecution.
warmly, Maria
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Paul Booyse
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Re: A Letter From Fran Sheffield
Just read this now. This is a co-ordinated global attack on homeopathy. And I am not imagining a conspiracy theory. The same thing happened in South Africa. A certain miss Sydney Kaye nailed Bioforce products Prostasan and Nervous & Insomnia Formula – by using the advertising standards authority. They can’t nail the registration authorities because that’s in chaos, so they go the ASA route. Effectively she won and it mean’s – you can sell the products, but sorry, you can’t advertise or promote them and you can’t even say on the box what they are for (i.e. change the name). Otherwise your good to go !!! Basically the argument was “ can you prove it works? If not – you can’t market it as such”.
So it looks like this is the tactic they are taking, and using it on various continents.
regards,
Paul
From: finrod@finrod.co.uk
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013 12:31 PM
To: finrod@finrod.co.uk
Subject: [Minutus] A Letter From Fran Sheffield
From: Homeopathy Plus [mailto:office@homeopathyplus.com.au]
Sent: 28 February 2013 22:01
To: finrod@finrod.co.uk
Subject: A Letter From Fran Sheffield
View this email on the web here . You can also forward to a friend .
A Letter From Fran Sheffield
Today I will be in court - the Federal Court of Australia.
By the end of today I may no longer be allowed to speak or write on the homeopathic treatment and prevention of whooping cough. Why would this be?
On the 18th February 2013, I received two emails with letters attached from Lauren White, Assistant Director of the Enforcement Operations of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). One was to the company Homeopathy Plus Australia Pty Ltd of which I am a Director and the other was to me personally as a registrant of the Homeopathy Plus website domain name.
We were advised by Ms White that two pages on our website that referred to whooping cough, the whooping cough vaccine, and the homeopathic treatment and prevention of whooping cough contained potentially misleading and deceptive statements. One of those pages was not in the public domain but in a private members’ area.
The letters also referred to prior concerns about a third page that was no longer on the website. That page also spoke about homeopathy and whooping cough but had been removed in April 2012 to allay the concerns of the ACCC. At the time we believed the matter to be resolved, but this was apparently not so as it too was resurrected as a basis for action; Ms White’s letter advised that the ACCC would seek orders regarding these three pages for:
§ 1. Declarations;
§ 2. Injunctions (including an interlocutory injunction);
§ 3. Pecuniary penalties; and
§ 4. Costs.
We were told the ACCC would consider settling this matter by consent if we did not contest liability and agreed to the orders sought by the ACCC. This was something Homeopathy Plus and I could not do because we fundamentally still believe the information we supplied to be correct.
Two days later we received another email advising that a date had been set for a fast-tracked Directions Hearing at the Federal Court of Australia (Sydney) in which the above “relief” points would be sought.
So, today, I find myself in court.
What was so shocking and misleading in those pages that led the ACCC to take such action? The following paragraphs are those identified by the ACCC as responsible:
________________________________
Page 1
“Most developed countries are currently in the grip of the whooping cough epidemic. To stop its spread, health officials are calling for the vaccination of adults as well as children. But is large-scale vaccination the best solution? Not only is protection from the current vaccine short-lived and unreliable, but side-effects are common. Recent research also suggests that the bacterium has mutated to a strain against which the vaccine is no longer effective. The homeopathic approach to this problem offers a safe and sensible solution. Homeopathy has a 200 year history of treating and preventing whooping cough without the risk of dangerous side-effects. It can also be used as a 2nd line of defence should vaccine from whooping cough already have been given.” (This page has not been on the website since April 2012).
________________________________
Page 2
“Many of those affected by whooping cough have already been vaccinated. Recent studies show that the vaccine has limited effect. To stop the spread of the current epidemic, health officials are calling for the vaccination of adults as well as children. But is large-scale vaccination the best solution when protection from the current vaccine appears unreliable at best and side-effects are common? Perhaps it is time to revisit Homeopathy – Homeopaths certainly think so. Homeopathy offers an alternative or ancillary approach to whooping cough management. It is been used by medical and non-medical Homeopaths during the past 200 years for that purpose and has an excellent safety record."
(This page is not in the public domain but in the private members area.)
________________________________
Page 3
Government Data Shows Whooping Cough Vaccine a Failure.
Australia, along with other countries, has seen a meteoric rise in the number of notified cases of whooping cough in the past few years. Lack of vaccination is often blamed but now information from the Australian government shows that the whooping cough vaccine has been largely ineffective. Between 2008 and 2010, of children aged 0-4 years whose vaccination status was known and who had contracted whooping cough, 75% were fully vaccinated and a further 14% were partly vaccinated. Only 11% were un-vaccinated. Why was the Australian government so slow to release this information? Do records from other countries show this vaccine has been equally unsuccessful? What is the future recommendation from government about whooping cough prevention? In the absence of an effective vaccine for this dangerous disease, it is also wise to know about homeopathy and whooping cough.
(This article was in the public area and linked to the following material: http://vaccinationdilemma.com/whooping- ... vaccinated - It is now in the private members area)
________________________________
What do you think? Are these paragraphs misleading and deceptive? Do they warrant fast-tracking in the Federal Court? What does it mean when a government body breaches the terms and conditions of a private members’ area? How does material, no longer on a website, mislead and deceive people today? Should people have the right to freely access alternative health information?
These and many more questions are waiting to be answered.
In the meantime I would like to send a very warm “thank you” to all who have offered support. The week has been extraordinarily hectic and I have been unable to reply to many of you, something I hope to rectify during the next few days. Please know that your words of encouragement and well-wishes have meant a lot.
I will keep you informed about this affair as it progresses.
Fran Sheffield
Homeopath and Director of Homeopathy Plus
©2013 Homeopathy Plus! | 4/5 Colony Close, Tuggerah, NSW, 2259 | Ph: +61 (2) 4304 0822 www.homeopathyplus.com.au
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So it looks like this is the tactic they are taking, and using it on various continents.
regards,
Paul
From: finrod@finrod.co.uk
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013 12:31 PM
To: finrod@finrod.co.uk
Subject: [Minutus] A Letter From Fran Sheffield
From: Homeopathy Plus [mailto:office@homeopathyplus.com.au]
Sent: 28 February 2013 22:01
To: finrod@finrod.co.uk
Subject: A Letter From Fran Sheffield
View this email on the web here . You can also forward to a friend .
A Letter From Fran Sheffield
Today I will be in court - the Federal Court of Australia.
By the end of today I may no longer be allowed to speak or write on the homeopathic treatment and prevention of whooping cough. Why would this be?
On the 18th February 2013, I received two emails with letters attached from Lauren White, Assistant Director of the Enforcement Operations of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). One was to the company Homeopathy Plus Australia Pty Ltd of which I am a Director and the other was to me personally as a registrant of the Homeopathy Plus website domain name.
We were advised by Ms White that two pages on our website that referred to whooping cough, the whooping cough vaccine, and the homeopathic treatment and prevention of whooping cough contained potentially misleading and deceptive statements. One of those pages was not in the public domain but in a private members’ area.
The letters also referred to prior concerns about a third page that was no longer on the website. That page also spoke about homeopathy and whooping cough but had been removed in April 2012 to allay the concerns of the ACCC. At the time we believed the matter to be resolved, but this was apparently not so as it too was resurrected as a basis for action; Ms White’s letter advised that the ACCC would seek orders regarding these three pages for:
§ 1. Declarations;
§ 2. Injunctions (including an interlocutory injunction);
§ 3. Pecuniary penalties; and
§ 4. Costs.
We were told the ACCC would consider settling this matter by consent if we did not contest liability and agreed to the orders sought by the ACCC. This was something Homeopathy Plus and I could not do because we fundamentally still believe the information we supplied to be correct.
Two days later we received another email advising that a date had been set for a fast-tracked Directions Hearing at the Federal Court of Australia (Sydney) in which the above “relief” points would be sought.
So, today, I find myself in court.
What was so shocking and misleading in those pages that led the ACCC to take such action? The following paragraphs are those identified by the ACCC as responsible:
________________________________
Page 1
“Most developed countries are currently in the grip of the whooping cough epidemic. To stop its spread, health officials are calling for the vaccination of adults as well as children. But is large-scale vaccination the best solution? Not only is protection from the current vaccine short-lived and unreliable, but side-effects are common. Recent research also suggests that the bacterium has mutated to a strain against which the vaccine is no longer effective. The homeopathic approach to this problem offers a safe and sensible solution. Homeopathy has a 200 year history of treating and preventing whooping cough without the risk of dangerous side-effects. It can also be used as a 2nd line of defence should vaccine from whooping cough already have been given.” (This page has not been on the website since April 2012).
________________________________
Page 2
“Many of those affected by whooping cough have already been vaccinated. Recent studies show that the vaccine has limited effect. To stop the spread of the current epidemic, health officials are calling for the vaccination of adults as well as children. But is large-scale vaccination the best solution when protection from the current vaccine appears unreliable at best and side-effects are common? Perhaps it is time to revisit Homeopathy – Homeopaths certainly think so. Homeopathy offers an alternative or ancillary approach to whooping cough management. It is been used by medical and non-medical Homeopaths during the past 200 years for that purpose and has an excellent safety record."
(This page is not in the public domain but in the private members area.)
________________________________
Page 3
Government Data Shows Whooping Cough Vaccine a Failure.
Australia, along with other countries, has seen a meteoric rise in the number of notified cases of whooping cough in the past few years. Lack of vaccination is often blamed but now information from the Australian government shows that the whooping cough vaccine has been largely ineffective. Between 2008 and 2010, of children aged 0-4 years whose vaccination status was known and who had contracted whooping cough, 75% were fully vaccinated and a further 14% were partly vaccinated. Only 11% were un-vaccinated. Why was the Australian government so slow to release this information? Do records from other countries show this vaccine has been equally unsuccessful? What is the future recommendation from government about whooping cough prevention? In the absence of an effective vaccine for this dangerous disease, it is also wise to know about homeopathy and whooping cough.
(This article was in the public area and linked to the following material: http://vaccinationdilemma.com/whooping- ... vaccinated - It is now in the private members area)
________________________________
What do you think? Are these paragraphs misleading and deceptive? Do they warrant fast-tracking in the Federal Court? What does it mean when a government body breaches the terms and conditions of a private members’ area? How does material, no longer on a website, mislead and deceive people today? Should people have the right to freely access alternative health information?
These and many more questions are waiting to be answered.
In the meantime I would like to send a very warm “thank you” to all who have offered support. The week has been extraordinarily hectic and I have been unable to reply to many of you, something I hope to rectify during the next few days. Please know that your words of encouragement and well-wishes have meant a lot.
I will keep you informed about this affair as it progresses.
Fran Sheffield
Homeopath and Director of Homeopathy Plus
©2013 Homeopathy Plus! | 4/5 Colony Close, Tuggerah, NSW, 2259 | Ph: +61 (2) 4304 0822 www.homeopathyplus.com.au
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Paul Booyse
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Re: A Letter From Fran Sheffield
Of course, one option may be to base your website in Cayman Island’s
regards,
Paul
From: finrod@finrod.co.uk
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013 12:31 PM
To: finrod@finrod.co.uk
Subject: [Minutus] A Letter From Fran Sheffield
From: Homeopathy Plus [mailto:office@homeopathyplus.com.au]
Sent: 28 February 2013 22:01
To: finrod@finrod.co.uk
Subject: A Letter From Fran Sheffield
View this email on the web here . You can also forward to a friend .
A Letter From Fran Sheffield
Today I will be in court - the Federal Court of Australia.
By the end of today I may no longer be allowed to speak or write on the homeopathic treatment and prevention of whooping cough. Why would this be?
On the 18th February 2013, I received two emails with letters attached from Lauren White, Assistant Director of the Enforcement Operations of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). One was to the company Homeopathy Plus Australia Pty Ltd of which I am a Director and the other was to me personally as a registrant of the Homeopathy Plus website domain name.
We were advised by Ms White that two pages on our website that referred to whooping cough, the whooping cough vaccine, and the homeopathic treatment and prevention of whooping cough contained potentially misleading and deceptive statements. One of those pages was not in the public domain but in a private members’ area.
The letters also referred to prior concerns about a third page that was no longer on the website. That page also spoke about homeopathy and whooping cough but had been removed in April 2012 to allay the concerns of the ACCC. At the time we believed the matter to be resolved, but this was apparently not so as it too was resurrected as a basis for action; Ms White’s letter advised that the ACCC would seek orders regarding these three pages for:
§ 1. Declarations;
§ 2. Injunctions (including an interlocutory injunction);
§ 3. Pecuniary penalties; and
§ 4. Costs.
We were told the ACCC would consider settling this matter by consent if we did not contest liability and agreed to the orders sought by the ACCC. This was something Homeopathy Plus and I could not do because we fundamentally still believe the information we supplied to be correct.
Two days later we received another email advising that a date had been set for a fast-tracked Directions Hearing at the Federal Court of Australia (Sydney) in which the above “relief” points would be sought.
So, today, I find myself in court.
What was so shocking and misleading in those pages that led the ACCC to take such action? The following paragraphs are those identified by the ACCC as responsible:
________________________________
Page 1
“Most developed countries are currently in the grip of the whooping cough epidemic. To stop its spread, health officials are calling for the vaccination of adults as well as children. But is large-scale vaccination the best solution? Not only is protection from the current vaccine short-lived and unreliable, but side-effects are common. Recent research also suggests that the bacterium has mutated to a strain against which the vaccine is no longer effective. The homeopathic approach to this problem offers a safe and sensible solution. Homeopathy has a 200 year history of treating and preventing whooping cough without the risk of dangerous side-effects. It can also be used as a 2nd line of defence should vaccine from whooping cough already have been given.” (This page has not been on the website since April 2012).
________________________________
Page 2
“Many of those affected by whooping cough have already been vaccinated. Recent studies show that the vaccine has limited effect. To stop the spread of the current epidemic, health officials are calling for the vaccination of adults as well as children. But is large-scale vaccination the best solution when protection from the current vaccine appears unreliable at best and side-effects are common? Perhaps it is time to revisit Homeopathy – Homeopaths certainly think so. Homeopathy offers an alternative or ancillary approach to whooping cough management. It is been used by medical and non-medical Homeopaths during the past 200 years for that purpose and has an excellent safety record."
(This page is not in the public domain but in the private members area.)
________________________________
Page 3
Government Data Shows Whooping Cough Vaccine a Failure.
Australia, along with other countries, has seen a meteoric rise in the number of notified cases of whooping cough in the past few years. Lack of vaccination is often blamed but now information from the Australian government shows that the whooping cough vaccine has been largely ineffective. Between 2008 and 2010, of children aged 0-4 years whose vaccination status was known and who had contracted whooping cough, 75% were fully vaccinated and a further 14% were partly vaccinated. Only 11% were un-vaccinated. Why was the Australian government so slow to release this information? Do records from other countries show this vaccine has been equally unsuccessful? What is the future recommendation from government about whooping cough prevention? In the absence of an effective vaccine for this dangerous disease, it is also wise to know about homeopathy and whooping cough.
(This article was in the public area and linked to the following material: http://vaccinationdilemma.com/whooping- ... vaccinated - It is now in the private members area)
________________________________
What do you think? Are these paragraphs misleading and deceptive? Do they warrant fast-tracking in the Federal Court? What does it mean when a government body breaches the terms and conditions of a private members’ area? How does material, no longer on a website, mislead and deceive people today? Should people have the right to freely access alternative health information?
These and many more questions are waiting to be answered.
In the meantime I would like to send a very warm “thank you” to all who have offered support. The week has been extraordinarily hectic and I have been unable to reply to many of you, something I hope to rectify during the next few days. Please know that your words of encouragement and well-wishes have meant a lot.
I will keep you informed about this affair as it progresses.
Fran Sheffield
Homeopath and Director of Homeopathy Plus
©2013 Homeopathy Plus! | 4/5 Colony Close, Tuggerah, NSW, 2259 | Ph: +61 (2) 4304 0822 www.homeopathyplus.com.au
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regards,
Paul
From: finrod@finrod.co.uk
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013 12:31 PM
To: finrod@finrod.co.uk
Subject: [Minutus] A Letter From Fran Sheffield
From: Homeopathy Plus [mailto:office@homeopathyplus.com.au]
Sent: 28 February 2013 22:01
To: finrod@finrod.co.uk
Subject: A Letter From Fran Sheffield
View this email on the web here . You can also forward to a friend .
A Letter From Fran Sheffield
Today I will be in court - the Federal Court of Australia.
By the end of today I may no longer be allowed to speak or write on the homeopathic treatment and prevention of whooping cough. Why would this be?
On the 18th February 2013, I received two emails with letters attached from Lauren White, Assistant Director of the Enforcement Operations of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). One was to the company Homeopathy Plus Australia Pty Ltd of which I am a Director and the other was to me personally as a registrant of the Homeopathy Plus website domain name.
We were advised by Ms White that two pages on our website that referred to whooping cough, the whooping cough vaccine, and the homeopathic treatment and prevention of whooping cough contained potentially misleading and deceptive statements. One of those pages was not in the public domain but in a private members’ area.
The letters also referred to prior concerns about a third page that was no longer on the website. That page also spoke about homeopathy and whooping cough but had been removed in April 2012 to allay the concerns of the ACCC. At the time we believed the matter to be resolved, but this was apparently not so as it too was resurrected as a basis for action; Ms White’s letter advised that the ACCC would seek orders regarding these three pages for:
§ 1. Declarations;
§ 2. Injunctions (including an interlocutory injunction);
§ 3. Pecuniary penalties; and
§ 4. Costs.
We were told the ACCC would consider settling this matter by consent if we did not contest liability and agreed to the orders sought by the ACCC. This was something Homeopathy Plus and I could not do because we fundamentally still believe the information we supplied to be correct.
Two days later we received another email advising that a date had been set for a fast-tracked Directions Hearing at the Federal Court of Australia (Sydney) in which the above “relief” points would be sought.
So, today, I find myself in court.
What was so shocking and misleading in those pages that led the ACCC to take such action? The following paragraphs are those identified by the ACCC as responsible:
________________________________
Page 1
“Most developed countries are currently in the grip of the whooping cough epidemic. To stop its spread, health officials are calling for the vaccination of adults as well as children. But is large-scale vaccination the best solution? Not only is protection from the current vaccine short-lived and unreliable, but side-effects are common. Recent research also suggests that the bacterium has mutated to a strain against which the vaccine is no longer effective. The homeopathic approach to this problem offers a safe and sensible solution. Homeopathy has a 200 year history of treating and preventing whooping cough without the risk of dangerous side-effects. It can also be used as a 2nd line of defence should vaccine from whooping cough already have been given.” (This page has not been on the website since April 2012).
________________________________
Page 2
“Many of those affected by whooping cough have already been vaccinated. Recent studies show that the vaccine has limited effect. To stop the spread of the current epidemic, health officials are calling for the vaccination of adults as well as children. But is large-scale vaccination the best solution when protection from the current vaccine appears unreliable at best and side-effects are common? Perhaps it is time to revisit Homeopathy – Homeopaths certainly think so. Homeopathy offers an alternative or ancillary approach to whooping cough management. It is been used by medical and non-medical Homeopaths during the past 200 years for that purpose and has an excellent safety record."
(This page is not in the public domain but in the private members area.)
________________________________
Page 3
Government Data Shows Whooping Cough Vaccine a Failure.
Australia, along with other countries, has seen a meteoric rise in the number of notified cases of whooping cough in the past few years. Lack of vaccination is often blamed but now information from the Australian government shows that the whooping cough vaccine has been largely ineffective. Between 2008 and 2010, of children aged 0-4 years whose vaccination status was known and who had contracted whooping cough, 75% were fully vaccinated and a further 14% were partly vaccinated. Only 11% were un-vaccinated. Why was the Australian government so slow to release this information? Do records from other countries show this vaccine has been equally unsuccessful? What is the future recommendation from government about whooping cough prevention? In the absence of an effective vaccine for this dangerous disease, it is also wise to know about homeopathy and whooping cough.
(This article was in the public area and linked to the following material: http://vaccinationdilemma.com/whooping- ... vaccinated - It is now in the private members area)
________________________________
What do you think? Are these paragraphs misleading and deceptive? Do they warrant fast-tracking in the Federal Court? What does it mean when a government body breaches the terms and conditions of a private members’ area? How does material, no longer on a website, mislead and deceive people today? Should people have the right to freely access alternative health information?
These and many more questions are waiting to be answered.
In the meantime I would like to send a very warm “thank you” to all who have offered support. The week has been extraordinarily hectic and I have been unable to reply to many of you, something I hope to rectify during the next few days. Please know that your words of encouragement and well-wishes have meant a lot.
I will keep you informed about this affair as it progresses.
Fran Sheffield
Homeopath and Director of Homeopathy Plus
©2013 Homeopathy Plus! | 4/5 Colony Close, Tuggerah, NSW, 2259 | Ph: +61 (2) 4304 0822 www.homeopathyplus.com.au
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Tanya Marquette
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Re: A Letter From Fran Sheffield
yes, of course this is a coordinated effort.
Remember the Codex Alimentarius is the trade agreement signed by almost every country
which requires all countries to make their laws conform to Codex.
Codex was written/influenced heavily by Big Pharma, Chema and Agribiz. It states in
writing that it supports GMO, drugging all animals with abs, etc. It attacks holistic
healing and applies Napoleonic principle that ALL IS BANNED UNLESS OTHERWISE APPROVED!
This turns many of our country’s laws upside down, particularly in the US DSHEA law that
grants blanket approval to all holistic protocols unless otherwise proved harmful.
We have seen several rounds of reactionary attacks on nutrition, nutritional supplements,
herbs, etc. The FDA has gone after any independent work even in the arena of conventional
medicine (witness the attacks on Burzinski and his neoplastin cancer treatments).
We need a universal perspective, shared worldwide so there can be concerted and coordinated
efforts to fight back.
t
From: Paul Booyse
Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2013 1:47 PM
To: minutus@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Minutus] A Letter From Fran Sheffield
Just read this now. This is a co-ordinated global attack on homeopathy. And I am not imagining a conspiracy theory. The same thing happened in South Africa. A certain miss Sydney Kaye nailed Bioforce products Prostasan and Nervous & Insomnia Formula – by using the advertising standards authority. They can’t nail the registration authorities because that’s in chaos, so they go the ASA route. Effectively she won and it mean’s – you can sell the products, but sorry, you can’t advertise or promote them and you can’t even say on the box what they are for (i.e. change the name). Otherwise your good to go !!! Basically the argument was “ can you prove it works? If not – you can’t market it as such”.
So it looks like this is the tactic they are taking, and using it on various continents.
regards,
Paul
From: finrod@finrod.co.uk
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013 12:31 PM
To: finrod@finrod.co.uk
Subject: [Minutus] A Letter From Fran Sheffield
From: Homeopathy Plus [mailto:office@homeopathyplus.com.au]
Sent: 28 February 2013 22:01
To: finrod@finrod.co.uk
Subject: A Letter From Fran Sheffield
View this email on the web here . You can also forward to a friend .
A Letter From Fran Sheffield
Today I will be in court - the Federal Court of Australia.
By the end of today I may no longer be allowed to speak or write on the homeopathic treatment and prevention of whooping cough. Why would this be?
On the 18th February 2013, I received two emails with letters attached from Lauren White, Assistant Director of the Enforcement Operations of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). One was to the company Homeopathy Plus Australia Pty Ltd of which I am a Director and the other was to me personally as a registrant of the Homeopathy Plus website domain name.
We were advised by Ms White that two pages on our website that referred to whooping cough, the whooping cough vaccine, and the homeopathic treatment and prevention of whooping cough contained potentially misleading and deceptive statements. One of those pages was not in the public domain but in a private members’ area.
The letters also referred to prior concerns about a third page that was no longer on the website. That page also spoke about homeopathy and whooping cough but had been removed in April 2012 to allay the concerns of the ACCC. At the time we believed the matter to be resolved, but this was apparently not so as it too was resurrected as a basis for action; Ms White’s letter advised that the ACCC would seek orders regarding these three pages for:
§ 1. Declarations;
§ 2. Injunctions (including an interlocutory injunction);
§ 3. Pecuniary penalties; and
§ 4. Costs.
We were told the ACCC would consider settling this matter by consent if we did not contest liability and agreed to the orders sought by the ACCC. This was something Homeopathy Plus and I could not do because we fundamentally still believe the information we supplied to be correct.
Two days later we received another email advising that a date had been set for a fast-tracked Directions Hearing at the Federal Court of Australia (Sydney) in which the above “relief” points would be sought.
So, today, I find myself in court.
What was so shocking and misleading in those pages that led the ACCC to take such action? The following paragraphs are those identified by the ACCC as responsible:
________________________________
Page 1
“Most developed countries are currently in the grip of the whooping cough epidemic. To stop its spread, health officials are calling for the vaccination of adults as well as children. But is large-scale vaccination the best solution? Not only is protection from the current vaccine short-lived and unreliable, but side-effects are common. Recent research also suggests that the bacterium has mutated to a strain against which the vaccine is no longer effective. The homeopathic approach to this problem offers a safe and sensible solution. Homeopathy has a 200 year history of treating and preventing whooping cough without the risk of dangerous side-effects. It can also be used as a 2nd line of defence should vaccine from whooping cough already have been given.” (This page has not been on the website since April 2012).
________________________________
Page 2
“Many of those affected by whooping cough have already been vaccinated. Recent studies show that the vaccine has limited effect. To stop the spread of the current epidemic, health officials are calling for the vaccination of adults as well as children. But is large-scale vaccination the best solution when protection from the current vaccine appears unreliable at best and side-effects are common? Perhaps it is time to revisit Homeopathy – Homeopaths certainly think so. Homeopathy offers an alternative or ancillary approach to whooping cough management. It is been used by medical and non-medical Homeopaths during the past 200 years for that purpose and has an excellent safety record."
(This page is not in the public domain but in the private members area.)
________________________________
Page 3
Government Data Shows Whooping Cough Vaccine a Failure.
Australia, along with other countries, has seen a meteoric rise in the number of notified cases of whooping cough in the past few years. Lack of vaccination is often blamed but now information from the Australian government shows that the whooping cough vaccine has been largely ineffective. Between 2008 and 2010, of children aged 0-4 years whose vaccination status was known and who had contracted whooping cough, 75% were fully vaccinated and a further 14% were partly vaccinated. Only 11% were un-vaccinated. Why was the Australian government so slow to release this information? Do records from other countries show this vaccine has been equally unsuccessful? What is the future recommendation from government about whooping cough prevention? In the absence of an effective vaccine for this dangerous disease, it is also wise to know about homeopathy and whooping cough.
(This article was in the public area and linked to the following material: http://vaccinationdilemma.com/whooping- ... vaccinated - It is now in the private members area)
________________________________
What do you think? Are these paragraphs misleading and deceptive? Do they warrant fast-tracking in the Federal Court? What does it mean when a government body breaches the terms and conditions of a private members’ area? How does material, no longer on a website, mislead and deceive people today? Should people have the right to freely access alternative health information?
These and many more questions are waiting to be answered.
In the meantime I would like to send a very warm “thank you” to all who have offered support. The week has been extraordinarily hectic and I have been unable to reply to many of you, something I hope to rectify during the next few days. Please know that your words of encouragement and well-wishes have meant a lot.
I will keep you informed about this affair as it progresses.
Fran Sheffield
Homeopath and Director of Homeopathy Plus
©2013 Homeopathy Plus! | 4/5 Colony Close, Tuggerah, NSW, 2259 | Ph: +61 (2) 4304 0822 www.homeopathyplus.com.au
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Remember the Codex Alimentarius is the trade agreement signed by almost every country
which requires all countries to make their laws conform to Codex.
Codex was written/influenced heavily by Big Pharma, Chema and Agribiz. It states in
writing that it supports GMO, drugging all animals with abs, etc. It attacks holistic
healing and applies Napoleonic principle that ALL IS BANNED UNLESS OTHERWISE APPROVED!
This turns many of our country’s laws upside down, particularly in the US DSHEA law that
grants blanket approval to all holistic protocols unless otherwise proved harmful.
We have seen several rounds of reactionary attacks on nutrition, nutritional supplements,
herbs, etc. The FDA has gone after any independent work even in the arena of conventional
medicine (witness the attacks on Burzinski and his neoplastin cancer treatments).
We need a universal perspective, shared worldwide so there can be concerted and coordinated
efforts to fight back.
t
From: Paul Booyse
Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2013 1:47 PM
To: minutus@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Minutus] A Letter From Fran Sheffield
Just read this now. This is a co-ordinated global attack on homeopathy. And I am not imagining a conspiracy theory. The same thing happened in South Africa. A certain miss Sydney Kaye nailed Bioforce products Prostasan and Nervous & Insomnia Formula – by using the advertising standards authority. They can’t nail the registration authorities because that’s in chaos, so they go the ASA route. Effectively she won and it mean’s – you can sell the products, but sorry, you can’t advertise or promote them and you can’t even say on the box what they are for (i.e. change the name). Otherwise your good to go !!! Basically the argument was “ can you prove it works? If not – you can’t market it as such”.
So it looks like this is the tactic they are taking, and using it on various continents.
regards,
Paul
From: finrod@finrod.co.uk
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013 12:31 PM
To: finrod@finrod.co.uk
Subject: [Minutus] A Letter From Fran Sheffield
From: Homeopathy Plus [mailto:office@homeopathyplus.com.au]
Sent: 28 February 2013 22:01
To: finrod@finrod.co.uk
Subject: A Letter From Fran Sheffield
View this email on the web here . You can also forward to a friend .
A Letter From Fran Sheffield
Today I will be in court - the Federal Court of Australia.
By the end of today I may no longer be allowed to speak or write on the homeopathic treatment and prevention of whooping cough. Why would this be?
On the 18th February 2013, I received two emails with letters attached from Lauren White, Assistant Director of the Enforcement Operations of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). One was to the company Homeopathy Plus Australia Pty Ltd of which I am a Director and the other was to me personally as a registrant of the Homeopathy Plus website domain name.
We were advised by Ms White that two pages on our website that referred to whooping cough, the whooping cough vaccine, and the homeopathic treatment and prevention of whooping cough contained potentially misleading and deceptive statements. One of those pages was not in the public domain but in a private members’ area.
The letters also referred to prior concerns about a third page that was no longer on the website. That page also spoke about homeopathy and whooping cough but had been removed in April 2012 to allay the concerns of the ACCC. At the time we believed the matter to be resolved, but this was apparently not so as it too was resurrected as a basis for action; Ms White’s letter advised that the ACCC would seek orders regarding these three pages for:
§ 1. Declarations;
§ 2. Injunctions (including an interlocutory injunction);
§ 3. Pecuniary penalties; and
§ 4. Costs.
We were told the ACCC would consider settling this matter by consent if we did not contest liability and agreed to the orders sought by the ACCC. This was something Homeopathy Plus and I could not do because we fundamentally still believe the information we supplied to be correct.
Two days later we received another email advising that a date had been set for a fast-tracked Directions Hearing at the Federal Court of Australia (Sydney) in which the above “relief” points would be sought.
So, today, I find myself in court.
What was so shocking and misleading in those pages that led the ACCC to take such action? The following paragraphs are those identified by the ACCC as responsible:
________________________________
Page 1
“Most developed countries are currently in the grip of the whooping cough epidemic. To stop its spread, health officials are calling for the vaccination of adults as well as children. But is large-scale vaccination the best solution? Not only is protection from the current vaccine short-lived and unreliable, but side-effects are common. Recent research also suggests that the bacterium has mutated to a strain against which the vaccine is no longer effective. The homeopathic approach to this problem offers a safe and sensible solution. Homeopathy has a 200 year history of treating and preventing whooping cough without the risk of dangerous side-effects. It can also be used as a 2nd line of defence should vaccine from whooping cough already have been given.” (This page has not been on the website since April 2012).
________________________________
Page 2
“Many of those affected by whooping cough have already been vaccinated. Recent studies show that the vaccine has limited effect. To stop the spread of the current epidemic, health officials are calling for the vaccination of adults as well as children. But is large-scale vaccination the best solution when protection from the current vaccine appears unreliable at best and side-effects are common? Perhaps it is time to revisit Homeopathy – Homeopaths certainly think so. Homeopathy offers an alternative or ancillary approach to whooping cough management. It is been used by medical and non-medical Homeopaths during the past 200 years for that purpose and has an excellent safety record."
(This page is not in the public domain but in the private members area.)
________________________________
Page 3
Government Data Shows Whooping Cough Vaccine a Failure.
Australia, along with other countries, has seen a meteoric rise in the number of notified cases of whooping cough in the past few years. Lack of vaccination is often blamed but now information from the Australian government shows that the whooping cough vaccine has been largely ineffective. Between 2008 and 2010, of children aged 0-4 years whose vaccination status was known and who had contracted whooping cough, 75% were fully vaccinated and a further 14% were partly vaccinated. Only 11% were un-vaccinated. Why was the Australian government so slow to release this information? Do records from other countries show this vaccine has been equally unsuccessful? What is the future recommendation from government about whooping cough prevention? In the absence of an effective vaccine for this dangerous disease, it is also wise to know about homeopathy and whooping cough.
(This article was in the public area and linked to the following material: http://vaccinationdilemma.com/whooping- ... vaccinated - It is now in the private members area)
________________________________
What do you think? Are these paragraphs misleading and deceptive? Do they warrant fast-tracking in the Federal Court? What does it mean when a government body breaches the terms and conditions of a private members’ area? How does material, no longer on a website, mislead and deceive people today? Should people have the right to freely access alternative health information?
These and many more questions are waiting to be answered.
In the meantime I would like to send a very warm “thank you” to all who have offered support. The week has been extraordinarily hectic and I have been unable to reply to many of you, something I hope to rectify during the next few days. Please know that your words of encouragement and well-wishes have meant a lot.
I will keep you informed about this affair as it progresses.
Fran Sheffield
Homeopath and Director of Homeopathy Plus
©2013 Homeopathy Plus! | 4/5 Colony Close, Tuggerah, NSW, 2259 | Ph: +61 (2) 4304 0822 www.homeopathyplus.com.au
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Tanya Marquette
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Re: A Letter From Fran Sheffield
this became a big issue in the UK last year with the quackbusters
flooding the ASA with letters of complaint. this gave the ASA the
excuse to go after homeopaths websites. and since the mainstream
funding sources refuse to fund homepathic research in a meaningful
way, they effectively make it impossible to function. clever bastards
they are—but we need to be more clever.
t
From: Paul Booyse
Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2013 1:47 PM
To: minutus@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Minutus] A Letter From Fran Sheffield
Just read this now. This is a co-ordinated global attack on homeopathy. And I am not imagining a conspiracy theory. The same thing happened in South Africa. A certain miss Sydney Kaye nailed Bioforce products Prostasan and Nervous & Insomnia Formula – by using the advertising standards authority. They can’t nail the registration authorities because that’s in chaos, so they go the ASA route. Effectively she won and it mean’s – you can sell the products, but sorry, you can’t advertise or promote them and you can’t even say on the box what they are for (i.e. change the name). Otherwise your good to go !!! Basically the argument was “ can you prove it works? If not – you can’t market it as such”.
So it looks like this is the tactic they are taking, and using it on various continents.
regards,
Paul
From: finrod@finrod.co.uk
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013 12:31 PM
To: finrod@finrod.co.uk
Subject: [Minutus] A Letter From Fran Sheffield
From: Homeopathy Plus [mailto:office@homeopathyplus.com.au]
Sent: 28 February 2013 22:01
To: finrod@finrod.co.uk
Subject: A Letter From Fran Sheffield
View this email on the web here . You can also forward to a friend .
A Letter From Fran Sheffield
Today I will be in court - the Federal Court of Australia.
By the end of today I may no longer be allowed to speak or write on the homeopathic treatment and prevention of whooping cough. Why would this be?
On the 18th February 2013, I received two emails with letters attached from Lauren White, Assistant Director of the Enforcement Operations of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). One was to the company Homeopathy Plus Australia Pty Ltd of which I am a Director and the other was to me personally as a registrant of the Homeopathy Plus website domain name.
We were advised by Ms White that two pages on our website that referred to whooping cough, the whooping cough vaccine, and the homeopathic treatment and prevention of whooping cough contained potentially misleading and deceptive statements. One of those pages was not in the public domain but in a private members’ area.
The letters also referred to prior concerns about a third page that was no longer on the website. That page also spoke about homeopathy and whooping cough but had been removed in April 2012 to allay the concerns of the ACCC. At the time we believed the matter to be resolved, but this was apparently not so as it too was resurrected as a basis for action; Ms White’s letter advised that the ACCC would seek orders regarding these three pages for:
§ 1. Declarations;
§ 2. Injunctions (including an interlocutory injunction);
§ 3. Pecuniary penalties; and
§ 4. Costs.
We were told the ACCC would consider settling this matter by consent if we did not contest liability and agreed to the orders sought by the ACCC. This was something Homeopathy Plus and I could not do because we fundamentally still believe the information we supplied to be correct.
Two days later we received another email advising that a date had been set for a fast-tracked Directions Hearing at the Federal Court of Australia (Sydney) in which the above “relief” points would be sought.
So, today, I find myself in court.
What was so shocking and misleading in those pages that led the ACCC to take such action? The following paragraphs are those identified by the ACCC as responsible:
________________________________
Page 1
“Most developed countries are currently in the grip of the whooping cough epidemic. To stop its spread, health officials are calling for the vaccination of adults as well as children. But is large-scale vaccination the best solution? Not only is protection from the current vaccine short-lived and unreliable, but side-effects are common. Recent research also suggests that the bacterium has mutated to a strain against which the vaccine is no longer effective. The homeopathic approach to this problem offers a safe and sensible solution. Homeopathy has a 200 year history of treating and preventing whooping cough without the risk of dangerous side-effects. It can also be used as a 2nd line of defence should vaccine from whooping cough already have been given.” (This page has not been on the website since April 2012).
________________________________
Page 2
“Many of those affected by whooping cough have already been vaccinated. Recent studies show that the vaccine has limited effect. To stop the spread of the current epidemic, health officials are calling for the vaccination of adults as well as children. But is large-scale vaccination the best solution when protection from the current vaccine appears unreliable at best and side-effects are common? Perhaps it is time to revisit Homeopathy – Homeopaths certainly think so. Homeopathy offers an alternative or ancillary approach to whooping cough management. It is been used by medical and non-medical Homeopaths during the past 200 years for that purpose and has an excellent safety record."
(This page is not in the public domain but in the private members area.)
________________________________
Page 3
Government Data Shows Whooping Cough Vaccine a Failure.
Australia, along with other countries, has seen a meteoric rise in the number of notified cases of whooping cough in the past few years. Lack of vaccination is often blamed but now information from the Australian government shows that the whooping cough vaccine has been largely ineffective. Between 2008 and 2010, of children aged 0-4 years whose vaccination status was known and who had contracted whooping cough, 75% were fully vaccinated and a further 14% were partly vaccinated. Only 11% were un-vaccinated. Why was the Australian government so slow to release this information? Do records from other countries show this vaccine has been equally unsuccessful? What is the future recommendation from government about whooping cough prevention? In the absence of an effective vaccine for this dangerous disease, it is also wise to know about homeopathy and whooping cough.
(This article was in the public area and linked to the following material: http://vaccinationdilemma.com/whooping- ... vaccinated - It is now in the private members area)
________________________________
What do you think? Are these paragraphs misleading and deceptive? Do they warrant fast-tracking in the Federal Court? What does it mean when a government body breaches the terms and conditions of a private members’ area? How does material, no longer on a website, mislead and deceive people today? Should people have the right to freely access alternative health information?
These and many more questions are waiting to be answered.
In the meantime I would like to send a very warm “thank you” to all who have offered support. The week has been extraordinarily hectic and I have been unable to reply to many of you, something I hope to rectify during the next few days. Please know that your words of encouragement and well-wishes have meant a lot.
I will keep you informed about this affair as it progresses.
Fran Sheffield
Homeopath and Director of Homeopathy Plus
©2013 Homeopathy Plus! | 4/5 Colony Close, Tuggerah, NSW, 2259 | Ph: +61 (2) 4304 0822 www.homeopathyplus.com.au
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flooding the ASA with letters of complaint. this gave the ASA the
excuse to go after homeopaths websites. and since the mainstream
funding sources refuse to fund homepathic research in a meaningful
way, they effectively make it impossible to function. clever bastards
they are—but we need to be more clever.
t
From: Paul Booyse
Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2013 1:47 PM
To: minutus@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Minutus] A Letter From Fran Sheffield
Just read this now. This is a co-ordinated global attack on homeopathy. And I am not imagining a conspiracy theory. The same thing happened in South Africa. A certain miss Sydney Kaye nailed Bioforce products Prostasan and Nervous & Insomnia Formula – by using the advertising standards authority. They can’t nail the registration authorities because that’s in chaos, so they go the ASA route. Effectively she won and it mean’s – you can sell the products, but sorry, you can’t advertise or promote them and you can’t even say on the box what they are for (i.e. change the name). Otherwise your good to go !!! Basically the argument was “ can you prove it works? If not – you can’t market it as such”.
So it looks like this is the tactic they are taking, and using it on various continents.
regards,
Paul
From: finrod@finrod.co.uk
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013 12:31 PM
To: finrod@finrod.co.uk
Subject: [Minutus] A Letter From Fran Sheffield
From: Homeopathy Plus [mailto:office@homeopathyplus.com.au]
Sent: 28 February 2013 22:01
To: finrod@finrod.co.uk
Subject: A Letter From Fran Sheffield
View this email on the web here . You can also forward to a friend .
A Letter From Fran Sheffield
Today I will be in court - the Federal Court of Australia.
By the end of today I may no longer be allowed to speak or write on the homeopathic treatment and prevention of whooping cough. Why would this be?
On the 18th February 2013, I received two emails with letters attached from Lauren White, Assistant Director of the Enforcement Operations of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). One was to the company Homeopathy Plus Australia Pty Ltd of which I am a Director and the other was to me personally as a registrant of the Homeopathy Plus website domain name.
We were advised by Ms White that two pages on our website that referred to whooping cough, the whooping cough vaccine, and the homeopathic treatment and prevention of whooping cough contained potentially misleading and deceptive statements. One of those pages was not in the public domain but in a private members’ area.
The letters also referred to prior concerns about a third page that was no longer on the website. That page also spoke about homeopathy and whooping cough but had been removed in April 2012 to allay the concerns of the ACCC. At the time we believed the matter to be resolved, but this was apparently not so as it too was resurrected as a basis for action; Ms White’s letter advised that the ACCC would seek orders regarding these three pages for:
§ 1. Declarations;
§ 2. Injunctions (including an interlocutory injunction);
§ 3. Pecuniary penalties; and
§ 4. Costs.
We were told the ACCC would consider settling this matter by consent if we did not contest liability and agreed to the orders sought by the ACCC. This was something Homeopathy Plus and I could not do because we fundamentally still believe the information we supplied to be correct.
Two days later we received another email advising that a date had been set for a fast-tracked Directions Hearing at the Federal Court of Australia (Sydney) in which the above “relief” points would be sought.
So, today, I find myself in court.
What was so shocking and misleading in those pages that led the ACCC to take such action? The following paragraphs are those identified by the ACCC as responsible:
________________________________
Page 1
“Most developed countries are currently in the grip of the whooping cough epidemic. To stop its spread, health officials are calling for the vaccination of adults as well as children. But is large-scale vaccination the best solution? Not only is protection from the current vaccine short-lived and unreliable, but side-effects are common. Recent research also suggests that the bacterium has mutated to a strain against which the vaccine is no longer effective. The homeopathic approach to this problem offers a safe and sensible solution. Homeopathy has a 200 year history of treating and preventing whooping cough without the risk of dangerous side-effects. It can also be used as a 2nd line of defence should vaccine from whooping cough already have been given.” (This page has not been on the website since April 2012).
________________________________
Page 2
“Many of those affected by whooping cough have already been vaccinated. Recent studies show that the vaccine has limited effect. To stop the spread of the current epidemic, health officials are calling for the vaccination of adults as well as children. But is large-scale vaccination the best solution when protection from the current vaccine appears unreliable at best and side-effects are common? Perhaps it is time to revisit Homeopathy – Homeopaths certainly think so. Homeopathy offers an alternative or ancillary approach to whooping cough management. It is been used by medical and non-medical Homeopaths during the past 200 years for that purpose and has an excellent safety record."
(This page is not in the public domain but in the private members area.)
________________________________
Page 3
Government Data Shows Whooping Cough Vaccine a Failure.
Australia, along with other countries, has seen a meteoric rise in the number of notified cases of whooping cough in the past few years. Lack of vaccination is often blamed but now information from the Australian government shows that the whooping cough vaccine has been largely ineffective. Between 2008 and 2010, of children aged 0-4 years whose vaccination status was known and who had contracted whooping cough, 75% were fully vaccinated and a further 14% were partly vaccinated. Only 11% were un-vaccinated. Why was the Australian government so slow to release this information? Do records from other countries show this vaccine has been equally unsuccessful? What is the future recommendation from government about whooping cough prevention? In the absence of an effective vaccine for this dangerous disease, it is also wise to know about homeopathy and whooping cough.
(This article was in the public area and linked to the following material: http://vaccinationdilemma.com/whooping- ... vaccinated - It is now in the private members area)
________________________________
What do you think? Are these paragraphs misleading and deceptive? Do they warrant fast-tracking in the Federal Court? What does it mean when a government body breaches the terms and conditions of a private members’ area? How does material, no longer on a website, mislead and deceive people today? Should people have the right to freely access alternative health information?
These and many more questions are waiting to be answered.
In the meantime I would like to send a very warm “thank you” to all who have offered support. The week has been extraordinarily hectic and I have been unable to reply to many of you, something I hope to rectify during the next few days. Please know that your words of encouragement and well-wishes have meant a lot.
I will keep you informed about this affair as it progresses.
Fran Sheffield
Homeopath and Director of Homeopathy Plus
©2013 Homeopathy Plus! | 4/5 Colony Close, Tuggerah, NSW, 2259 | Ph: +61 (2) 4304 0822 www.homeopathyplus.com.au
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Irene de Villiers
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Re: A Letter From Fran Sheffield
Does not work - it counts where you reside, not where the website is.
..........Irene
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Irene de Villiers, B.Sc AASCA MCSSA D.I.Hom/D.Vet.Hom.
P.O. Box 4703 Spokane WA 99220.
www.angelfire.com/fl/furryboots/clickhere.html (Veterinary Homeopath.)
"Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt one doing it."
..........Irene
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Irene de Villiers, B.Sc AASCA MCSSA D.I.Hom/D.Vet.Hom.
P.O. Box 4703 Spokane WA 99220.
www.angelfire.com/fl/furryboots/clickhere.html (Veterinary Homeopath.)
"Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt one doing it."
Re: A Letter From Fran Sheffield
What about big pharm advertising on tv...american tv, at least, where they use
the word...I think..."homeopathic formula"...I can't remember the product.
I'll watch for it.
the word...I think..."homeopathic formula"...I can't remember the product.
I'll watch for it.
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Tanya Marquette
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Re: A Letter From Fran Sheffield
I have seen that several times. Can’t recall the products.
t
From: Carol Orr
Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2013 11:12 AM
To: minutus@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Minutus] Re: A Letter From Fran Sheffield
What about big pharm advertising on tv...american tv, at least, where they use
the word...I think..."homeopathic formula"...I can't remember the product.
I'll watch for it.
t
From: Carol Orr
Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2013 11:12 AM
To: minutus@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Minutus] Re: A Letter From Fran Sheffield
What about big pharm advertising on tv...american tv, at least, where they use
the word...I think..."homeopathic formula"...I can't remember the product.
I'll watch for it.