jenny mccarthy wants your kid to get measles: autism, vaccines, and stupid idiots

Hahaha I am trying to think about the right way to position myself into such a thing, since my way into the Bioethics Committee meetings would be through the lady who runs the Ethics course, and she makes me sad inside. The easiest thing to do would be to lie and be all "I am SO INTERESTED in Ethics class, I want to get more Ethics", even though I spent last week's lecture looking through an article in the Bulletin of Medical History, but I wonder if "Look, your class sucks, I am dying here, let me play at full speed" would work.

we've got a student comm on bioethics, which coordinates with the on site bioethics consultant. tho she is, I guess, our de facto "ethics" course director (it's actually rolled into a larger course that addresses cultural stuff, law, complementary med, etc. which is so sprawlin and half assed and sucky) so maybe it's the same in yr case.

we're actually setting it up so that we(comm members) get pages via google voice when there's a consult requested. neat!

Not nec trying to be cheeky w/ my request, it's just that Plasmon writes well and at length on this stuff, and with the proper ILX extended deconstructory style tha. Nabisco used to do on all the politickin' threads.

Plus, I'm happy that Alice Miller & Dr Bob Altenmeyer got mentioned, as I feel their stuff is bleedingly crucial to understanding WTF has been going on, and I wish more people would read & rep for them(other than me). Heh.

is there an ilx rolling med school thread?

yes!

ONE OF US ONE OF US ONE OF US

haha

plasmon sent your post to a couple of med students in my program - its really thoughtful. thanks.

link plz? xp

medical school

holy shit gbx are you still getting laid at this very moment?

he is a perpetual sex machine. md.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jenny-mccarthy/whos-afraid-of-the-truth_b_490918.html

the huffington post is generally sucky, but fuck them

way too much retarded stuff to even begin unpacking, but this is some great science -

The idea that vaccines are a primary cause of autism is not as crackpot as some might wish. Autism's 60-fold rise in 30 years matches a tripling of the US vaccine schedule.

it EXACTLY matches a 60-fold increase in American use of the term "shart"

the internet causes autism, as well as hispanic people

Who's afraid of the truth? Usually the people it would hurt the most.

~makes u think~

all my health care bros check out that "study" she linked to for a good laff

I do not think I will get laffs from it, this shit pisses me off so bad

My hatred for Jenny McCarthy has increased twenty-fold since she stopped appearing on Singled Out. Hence, MTV game shows caused autism.

I could use a laff

keithlaw I'm still not clear on how or why a woman who is known primarily for shedding her clothes is seen as an authority on immunology.

Jenny McCarthy’s honesty, humility and humor have enabled her to transcend the boundaries of her roles as comedian, actress, host, best-selling author and influential activist in the world of healing and preventing autism.

Shes claiming she's met "hundreds" of "recovered" autistics? WTF?

People dont recover from autism ffs, do they?

trayce, haven't you met hundreds of recovered gays?

Oh of course, yes, how silly of me.

Seriously, are parents just going "oh little oscar is really quiet and never behaves himself - HE HAS AUTISM!" or something.

vaccines aren't necessary! nobody gets measles any more!!

If you could vaccinate the whole world and no-one got measles for a generation or two, would measles come back if you stopped?

exactly! it's like unions, we just don't need em anymore

Sorry, fit of giggles, read that as:

exactly! it's like onions, we just don't need em anymore

modern onion farming is a sham perpetuated by onion patent holders

i mean answer me this - i made an omelette the other day with shallots and it was FINE!!

Maybe Jim finally realized he was dealing with a crazy person.

They're both so odious, I'm reluctant to ascribe blame. Also, Jim was pretty on board with the anti-vax stuff, too, IIRC.

jim-carrey-jenny-mccarthy-split-via-twitter

The anti-vaccination SVU rerun was on last night. I wish they had put Jenny McCarthy on trial.

I had to get a tetanus, etc. shot the other day because of this bitch's influence starting outbreaks all over the US. Apparently the CDC is harassing doctors about innoculating everyone who hasnt had a shot in awhile.

I got my own booster for it last year, but it had been ten years since my last one, so.

i cant read this whole thread but has anyone with medical knowledge talked about glycerin used to bind the other stuff in the MMR possibly triggering autism? pls link if so.

They're really grasping at straws now, aren't they? Glycerin's in everything.

srsly, where are you hearing this stuff

Sounds to me like one of those "hey, thimerosal is not in vaccines now but we're trying to claim it's still vaccines, so what's this glycerin thing? sounds scary!"

I've heard vaccines have dihydrogen oxide in them too, btw.

Don't let the daaaays go byyyyyyy

I've heard vaccines have dihydrogen oxide in them too, btw.

loooooooool

Sounds to me like one of those "hey, thimerosal is not in vaccines now but we're trying to claim it's still vaccines, so what's this glycerin thing? sounds scary!"

I've heard vaccines have dihydrogen oxide in them too, btw.

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otm and lol

don't think we can embed ted talks, this was pretty righteous

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/michael_specter_the_danger_of_science_denial.html

not news to pps on this thread, but puts the mccarthy denialism in larger context

That was a really good one. It contextualized denialism so well, it made me angry at Insane Clown Posse.

yup!

I'm kind of thinking having Jenny McCarthy as a parent gives you autism, but the scientific method isn't going to help prove that very well.

Why bring science into this now?