Are you brave enough to follow through, Peter Bowditch?
As you have read on this page, the deadline for someone to come forward and debate me is coming up. It is this Friday, the 9th of May.
After writing my blog article, The Great Vaccination Non-Debate, Peter Bowditch of the NSW Skeptics and a very active 'contributor' to their splinter group, Stop the AVN, posted the following comment to the AVN's blog:
"Please notify the organisers of the Healthy Lifestyles Expo that I was serious when I offered to debate you. Now that you are aware of this you can no longer claim that nobody from the sanity side of the non-debate is prepared to step up to the plate.
"In case this comment doesn’t manage to get through moderation, a screen shot will be published on Twitter and Facebook."
I instantly wrote back to Mr Bowditch, informing him that, as it said in the blog post, anyone who wanted to be involved in the debate should contact the organisers and let them know.
I did inform the organisers about Mr Bowditch's offer to debate me and they sent him 2 invitations without getting any response. Let me repeat - as of this weekend, despite 2 written invitations in response to his offer to debate me at the You Can Heal Yourself Expo at the end of this month, Peter Bowditch, who made the offer of his own free will, has not responded.
What's worse, he now appears to be trying to blame me for his failure to follow through on his promise to debate me. Yesterday, he sent the following tweet out to his followers:
Apparently, he wants to make it appear that he was unaware of the venue of this debate and, now knowing it, he will no longer debate me.
But the truth is that the venue and all debate details were freely advertised and Mr Bowditch is the one who contacted me to say he wanted to debate.
Come on, Peter! I'm calling on you to either accept the invitation (which was sent at your request) or admit that you are too scared to debate me on this issue. You can't have it both ways.
You are the one who accepted the challenge - and you are the one who has to follow through or admit that you are afraid to debate.