The anti-Jenny blogosphere

Medical and science blogs are aghast at Jenny McCarthy’s comments that I reviewed earlier today. Let me list some of the more choice comments.

Orac at Respectful Insolence says:

In Jenny's warped world, your children are acceptable collateral damage in the cause of promoting her unscientific belief that vaccines cause autism. Here's a hint for you, Jenny: We already do have vaccines that are safe, and neither you (nor the antivaccine loons) are changing. The government and pharmaceutical companies are listening to you far more than your idiotic pseudoscientific nonsense deserves and even though you are a scientific illiterate. Scientists are wasting millions of dollars studying over and over again the question of whether vaccines are associated with autism and keep finding the same answer: They aren't.


Dr. David Gorski at Science Based Medicine states:

Here’s a hint for you, Jenny: We already do have vaccines that are safe. The government is listening to you and your fellow antivaccine activists far more than your pseudoscientific nonsense deserves and even though you are a scientific illiterate. They do it because you and your fellow antivaccine activists whose public face you have become are endangering public health on the basis of no good science, and they are trying to prevent that. Indeed, scientists continue to waste millions of dollars studying over and over again the question of whether vaccines are associated with autism and keep finding the same answer: They aren’t.


Beyond the Short Coat opines:

The scientific case for “Vaccines cause autism” is just slightly better than the scientific case for “The earth is flat”.


I could go on, but I’m trying to not be too snarky. It’s very difficult.

By Michael W Simpson


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