While having been one of the visible opponents for vaccinations, the View’s host Jenny McCarthy made a bit of a startling turn this week in a Chicago Sun-Times column.
I am not “anti-vaccine.” This is not a change in my stance nor is it a new position that I have recently adopted. For years, I have repeatedly stated that I am, in fact, “pro-vaccine” and for years I have been wrongly branded as “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.
But, as the Atlantic says, nobody wins in an argument with her after citing just one of her many, and dangerous, opinions about vaccines in 2009.
“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 fucking fault that the diseases are coming back. They’re making a product that’s shit. If you give us a safe vaccine, we’ll use it. It shouldn’t be polio versus autism.”
Read the full, original articles:
- “I Never Told Anyone Not to Vaccinate”, the Atlantic
- Jenny McCarthy: The grey area on vaccines, Chicago Sun-Times
Next time you discuss Jenny, please post a picture of her.
Why the hell isn’t Jenny McCunthy in prison yet?
Jeremy, Come on man. You can express your disgust without making this look like a porn site.I was just being my usual smart aleck self.
It’s much easier to achieve success when the public are ignorant and don’t have a choice.
Jenny is no longer host of the View.
Tell that to people living in roundup infested areas of my country, where cancer rates have sky-rocketed in the last years.
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27373134
Lots of scientific studies about that as well.
It is sad that some people trust more TV hosts than science or government. But it is also sad that some other people don’t realize that there is a lot of science out there, and it is media and corporations who decide which results reach the masses.
In this issue, like in many others, science is still a provider of information, but it is still up to every citizen to reach out for good sources, analyze and reach some conclusions looking at the big picture.