Anti-vaccination group the Australian Vaccination Network has failed to adopt a new name.
On the 24th of December 2013 sources monitoring the registries at Australian Securities & Investments Commission learnt of an attempt to register the name “Australian Vaccination Sceptics Network” however the registration never left “pending” status before vanishing from the record.
As a precaution I submitted an application for the same name on the off chance that the attempt may have been the AVN trying to hijack the term Skeptic.
We now know that the registration attempt was indeed made by the AVN.
THE Australian Vaccination Network, which promotes the “benefits” of measles and believes vaccines cause autism, has lost its first battle to find a new name.
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The Australian has identified a failed attempt by the organisation to “reserve” the name Australian Vaccination – Sceptics Network with the Australian Securities & Investments Commission.
In the wake of the failed attempt, other members of the public rushed to register the name as well as Australian Vaccination Skeptics.
Network president Greg Beattie said he “did not care” whether the attempt at a new name provoked more attempts to expose the group as unscientific. “We have reserved the name but we haven’t registered it,” he said. –The Australian
How can the AVN have “reserved” a name which I now own? Another lie.
Efforts to force the AVN to adopt a non-deceptive name are ongoing.
Will AVN try alternate spellings?
Australian Vaccination Skeptics Network?
Warning! Pedant Alert! I think the name reservation was made at the NSW Office of Fair Trading. No matter.
Ken. On their front page it says:
IMPORTANT: NSW Fair Trading no longer administers business names in NSW.
The AVN is an Incorporated Association, not a Registered Business.
Good work! Keep it up. The world needs more people willing to step up against paranoid delusions..
these people are trying to give skeptics a bad name
Can someone who actually knows please clarify:
1. Is AVN an incorporated association or a business or both?
2. Which entity is it that the AVN should be changing their name with?