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Originally Posted by troutman
Jenny McCarthy is causing a lot of damage.
http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/?p=390
http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/?p=363
http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/?p=478
The anti-vaccination movement was given a boost by actress Jenny McCarthy, who was convinced that vaccines were responsible for her son’s apparent autism. She was later joined in her crusade by her boyfriend, Jim Carrey. The movement had already been gaining some traction over false fears that thimerosal in vaccines (although mostly removed by 2002) was linked to autism. Such fears had already caused a drop in vaccination rates in the UK with subsequent measles outbreaks. Now these irrational fears were coming to the US, helped along by scientifically-illiterate pretty-people.
And I will say it again - if Jenny McCarthy is going to put her own “mommy instinct” before the consensus of scientific opinion, and exploit her dubious celebrity to champion anti-science, then she is going to have to take responsibility for her actions. The way I figure it, so far there are at least 68 measles cases on her tally sheet, and the number is growing. |
This Jenny McCarthy "phenomenon" is truly mind-buggering. I mean come on, it's Jenny McCarthy.
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My doctor says I'm terribly anemic and should take vitamins, but I saw Carmen Electra on tv and she said vitamins cause brain aneurysms, so I threw the vitamins in the garbage."
It's the same thing.
I don't want to open up the old "they shouldn't be allowed to have kids" debate again, but...