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In an op-ed in the Chicago Sun-Times, Jenny McCarthy claims she is not anti-vaccine. "I believe in the importance of a vaccine program and I believe parents have the right to choose one poke per visit. I've never told anyone to not vaccinate. Should a child with the flu receive six vaccines in one doctor visit? Should a child with a compromised immune system be treated the same way as a robust, healthy child? Shouldn't a child with a family history of vaccine reactions have a different plan? Or at least the right to ask questions?"
However Jeffrey Kluger, who interviewed McCarthy in 2009, responds in Time Magazine that McCarthy believes vaccines cause autism, that they are related to OCD, ADHD and other physical and behavioral ills, that they are overprescribed, teeming with toxins, poorly regulated and that the only reason we keep forcing them into the sweet, pristine immune systems of children is because doctors, big pharma and who-knows what-all sinister forces want it that way. "Jenny, as outbreaks of measles, mumps and whooping cough continue to appear in the U.S.-most the result of parents refusing to vaccinate their children because of the scare stories passed around by anti-vaxxers like you-it's just too late to play cute with the things you've said. You are either floridly, loudly, uninformedly antivaccine or you are the most grievously misunderstood celebrity of the modern era. Science almost always prefers the simple answer, because that's the one that's usually correct. Your quote trail is far too long-and you have been far too wrong-for the truth not to be obvious."
(Score: 3, Interesting) by lhsi on Tuesday April 15 2014, @09:01AM
I read today that taking anti-depressants might be linked to autism [medicalxpress.com]. Boys with autism were three times more likely to have been exposed to antidepressants known as SSRIs in the womb than typically developing children, according to new research.
Depressed because someone they know caught a preventable disease perhaps[?]
Tangent: I found that this site demonstrates herd immunity quite well: http://op12no2.me/toys/herd/index.php [op12no2.me]
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Wednesday April 16 2014, @02:22AM
Or because they inherited a factor contributing to autism but that sometimes manifests as depression, and therefore is treated as depression??
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Wednesday April 16 2014, @02:24AM
Forgot to finish what I was saying... I got distracted by the excellent demo :)
Which would be even more interesting, and effective, were it to take the death and permanent disability rates for common diseases and randomly inflict them on the 'recovered' dots.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.