The nominations for 2020 are:
- Pete Evans and BioCharger
- Meryl Dorey
- Fran Sheffield and Homeopathy Plus!
- Judy Wilyman
- MMS Australia – Genesis II Church Chapter #316
- Kyle and Jackie O
- Toby Rogers & Uni of Sydney
Pete Evans
Nominated: Various
Date: 15/04/2020
‘Paleo’ Pete Evans, anti-vaccinationist, anti-fluoride, crank diet promoter, for his latest venture, the US$15,000 BioCharger, which produces “frequencies and harmonics” to treat COVID-19, among other ailments.
Meryl Dorey
Nominated: Richard Saunders
Date: 15/04/2020
Anti-vaccinationist and former head of the Australian [anti]Vaccination[skeptic/risk] Network, for suggesting that the COVID-19 pandemic was not real, and encouraging her followers to invade hospitals to check how busy they are.
Fran Sheffield
Nominated: Richard Saunders
Date: 15/04/2020
Pushing the notion that homeopathy can help prevent COVID-19, and suggesting a conspiracy to conceal information on a homeopathic COVID-19 treatment.
Judy Wilyman
Nominated: Richard Saunders
Date: 15/04/2020
In 2016 Judy Wilyman was awarded a doctorate from the University of Wollongong on the basis of an anti-vaccination PhD thesis riddled with errors, misstatements, poor and unsupported ‘evidence’, and global conspiratorial thinking. She is now regurgitating those claims regarding COVID-19.
MMS Australia – Genesis II Church Chapter #316
Nominated: Mal Vickers
Date: 4/05/2020
For selling a form of bleach (chlorine dioxide) as a panacea for many health conditions, including COVID-19. This business covers itself in a veneer of religious fervour to hide its commercially exploitative and dangerous activities. In Australia, reverends Peter Greg (WA) and Francesco Duardo (NSW) proselytise the health benefits of MMS (bleach) and offer it as a “sacrament of the Church” for $32.50 per bottle. Regardless of the Therapeutic Goods Administration’s 2014 warning, the promoters of MMS have returned to Australia to exploit our acceptance of anything American, our low levels of health literacy, and the commercial opportunity provided by the pandemic. [Postscript: it is gratifying to see that the TGA announced on May 13 that it had issued twelve infringement notices totalling $151,200 “for the alleged unlawful advertising of Miracle Mineral Supplement (also referred to as Miracle Mineral Solution) (MMS) and other medicines by Southern Cross Directories Pty Ltd trading as MMS Australia”.]
Kyle and Jackie O
Nominated: Various
Date: 1/06/2020
For the often-controversial radio presenters giving Pete “Paleo” Evans an unrestricted 20 minutes to espouse his dangerous nonsense.
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Toby Rogers & Uni of Sydney
Nominated: David Roche
Date: 16/09/2020
Toby Rogers and the University of Sydney’s School of Social and Political Sciences, for awarding Rogers a doctorate on the basis of his PhD thesis The Political Economy of Autism, which uncritically cites junk science to support the conspiracy theory that a capital conquest of science and medicine has caused a global autism epidemic through exposure to environmental toxicants such as pesticides, antidepressants and vaccines.
