Jenny McCarthy again!
Why is anyone listening to Jenny McCarthy? She just published a new books continuing her unscientific and unsupported rants about how vaccines cause autism. As of today, there are still no links between the two, but because she was a Playboy Playmate of the Year, she has a soapbox to promote her views.
Yesterday, Jenny talked to Time Magazine about her views on vaccines. One answer in particular confirms to me how harmful she is to children:
Your collaborator recommends that parents accept only the haemophilus influenzae type B (HIB) and tetanus vaccine for newborns and then think about the rest. Not polio? What about the polio clusters in unvaccinated communities like the Amish in the U.S.? What about the 2004 outbreak that swept across Africa and Southeast Asia after a single province in northern Nigeria banned vaccines?
I do believe sadly it's going to take some diseases coming back to realize that we need to change and develop vaccines that are safe. If the vaccine companies are not listening to us, it's their f___ing fault that the diseases are coming back. They're making a product that's s___. If you give us a safe vaccine, we'll use it. It shouldn't be polio versus autism.
First, polio vaccine does not cause autism. Second, even if there was the slightest deleterious effect from these vaccines, the complications of contracting polio itself is so huge, that the risk benefit ratio skews to the benefit side so much, that it’s impossible to see the risk.
As I’ve said before, this is a tragedy.
By Michael W Simpson
Yesterday, Jenny talked to Time Magazine about her views on vaccines. One answer in particular confirms to me how harmful she is to children:
Your collaborator recommends that parents accept only the haemophilus influenzae type B (HIB) and tetanus vaccine for newborns and then think about the rest. Not polio? What about the polio clusters in unvaccinated communities like the Amish in the U.S.? What about the 2004 outbreak that swept across Africa and Southeast Asia after a single province in northern Nigeria banned vaccines?
I do believe sadly it's going to take some diseases coming back to realize that we need to change and develop vaccines that are safe. If the vaccine companies are not listening to us, it's their f___ing fault that the diseases are coming back. They're making a product that's s___. If you give us a safe vaccine, we'll use it. It shouldn't be polio versus autism.
First, polio vaccine does not cause autism. Second, even if there was the slightest deleterious effect from these vaccines, the complications of contracting polio itself is so huge, that the risk benefit ratio skews to the benefit side so much, that it’s impossible to see the risk.
As I’ve said before, this is a tragedy.
By Michael W Simpson