Author and researcher, Kent Heckenlively, has been banned from Australia due to his ‘anti-vaccination’ views, according to the Australian government.
Heckenlively, an outspoken critic of vaccinations, was denied entry into the country on Thursday by immigration Minister Peter Dutton, who blocked a planned tour scheduled for later this year.
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Smh.com.au reports: “We’re not going to allow him to come here,” Mr Dutton told Sydney radio station 2GB.
“These people who are telling parents that their kids shouldn’t be vaccinated are dangerous. We have been very careful in having a look right through this particular case and it’s clear to me that it’s not in our national interest that he should come here.”
Mr Heckenlively, who lives in northern California, contributes to a website that claims autism is “an environmentally induced illness, that it is treatable, and that children can recover”.
He also has links to Andrew Wakefield, the disgraced former doctor whose debunked study was central to the anti-vaccination movement and has since gone on to make the film Vaxxed.
The film has been banned by several film festivals but has been shown in secret locations around Australia.
Immigration officials recently banned British campaigner Polly Tommey and US campaigner Suzanne Humphries from entering the country for three years after the pair toured Australia withVaxxed, which alleges there is a link between the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine and autism.
The opposition had written to Mr Dutton requesting Mr Heckenlively’s application for a visa be denied.
“Dangerous misinformation peddled by anti-vaccination proponents should never take the place of proven, scientific advice, and we have a responsibility to make sure parents are getting the right messages,” the opposition’s health spokeswoman, Catherine King, said on Thursday.
“The fight against vaccination misinformation is continuous – earlier this month, we saw two anti-vaccination advocates tour the country and show a film that wrongly claims a link between the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine and autism. While our immunisation program has historically been effective, there is growing evidence that anti-vaccination advocates and their political allies like Pauline Hanson and One Nation are now undermining our success – as shown by the doubling of measles cases between 2013 and 2014.”
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We all know our government is a puppet of the power elites…. Our prime minister Malcolm Turdbullshit is a slimy piece of shit, all of his business interests are registered in the cayman islands and it is only a matter of time before one of our lower socio unemployed meth addicts sticks a blunt knife in his belly…. He is known here in the lower socio suburbs as the “TRAITOR” and he is a marked man…. no doubt when it happens to him the media here will pull the old smoke and mirrors routine on the incident and state that it was some muslim extremist. Watch this space I will keep you all posted… lol
the vaccine was an IQ test and a test of ones faith in God. If you took it, you need to work on walking closer to God, you are living in Satan’s world and need to live in God’s Kingdom. You live in lies, and filth, fear, pain, and hopelessness. Run to God’s hip and latch on and don’t let go. He will show you how to navigate Satan’s world. There is a way to do it, but you need divine strength and knowledge, and God will provide you the tools and situation to live in peace while on this planet, and he will give you a job, a purpose.