William K. Wolfrum Chronicles

Jenny McCarthy has flown passed the designation of “concerned and loving Mom,” and moved on to the new designation of “reckless and dangerous pseudoscientist.”

Watch her interview with CNN below. While you watch it, think about the debates you’ve seen come from the likes of 9/11 Truthers. Note that McCarthy has absolutely no evidence to back any of her claims that vaccines cause autism, and then reacts angrily and dismissively to the evidence against her case. And wraps the whole thing in an “Evil Big Pharma” bow:

Every proper study ever done on vaccinations has shown that there is no connection whatsoever with vaccines and autism. Jenny McCarthy’s claims that vaccines caused her son to have autism and that she cured it by giving him vitamins and a better diet are just plain nonsense. There is equal real evidence that haircuts cause acne as there is for vaccines causing autism.

If some type of real scientific evidence appears that shows a connection between autism and vaccines, I’ll publicly apologize to McCarthy. But every last scrap of real evidence proves that McCarthy’s strongly held views on the subject are dangerous and are putting children at risk.

Jenny McCarthy has every right to spew any pseudoscience she wants. But I have every right - and a hell of a lot more real evidence - to say that she’s completely full of crap.

–WKW

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