• more about #feminismandvaccinations
    ceejeemcbeegee is not here: I'd like to add (2 days too late, but whatevs!) that McCarthy should be lauded for her efforts to "reverse" her sons condition, for lack of a better t... more »
    DutchessOfDork: I have heard that autism is on the rise due to an increasing number of women giving birth in their 40s. more »
    clevernamehere: Delayed vaccination and the Sears book have come up a couple of times on these thread. For those consider delayed vaccination, there are a few links y... more »
    rollergirl76: I've heard that women attract bears because they can smell the menstruation. more »
    labeled: So, let me get this straight... We've completely and happily conflated two issues (the non-vaccinators & Jenny McCarthy's advocacy of delayed vac... more »
    whynotshesaid: The thing that I have a hard time with when it comes to the anti-vaccination advocates is that what they are essentially arguing is that their child's... more »
    clevernamehere: What I always ironic about the anti-vaccine folks is that they don't think ahead. Rubella isn't such a terrible disease if you catch it as an adult, b... more »
    BlowJoy: Please note that Jenny McCarthy has never said she is anti-vaccination. She is simply asking for more research. Crazy? Selfish? Self-righteous? Or adv... more »
    graceful_gamine: i understand the reason for most vaccines, but the chicken pox vaccine? EVERYTHING i have read about that points to one drug company that wants to ma... more »
    NefariousNewt: It boils down to this: Jenny McCarthy is entitled to her say, just as any autistic parent is. But when you are operating in the arena of scientific st... more »
    SharonTaint: [scienceblogs.com] more »
    SharonTaint: Isn't the fact that we're even having such a ridiculous discussion a testament to how incredibly well vaccines work?? Also, this: [scienceblogs.com] more »
    Leucadia: People are afraid of vaccines because they have never watched babies die of communicable disease. This was a fact of life before this century (and as ... more »
    Stabby McStabberson: mercury air pollution a link to autism. [www.webmd.com] "We found that for every 1,000 pounds of mercury released by industry, there was a 17% increas... more »
    ceejeemcbeegee is not here: So... then what DOES cause autism then? Something has to be at the root of its sudden increase. more »
    Stabby McStabberson: this is what happens when people take medical advice from a former playboy bunny. america: what the fuck? end of lesson. more »
    Mafalda para Presidente: I think of the anti-vaccinist as leeches. They leech off the people who do choose to vaccinate. They don't realize that the only reason why they are... more »
    sindri: We will be working out a 'gentler' vaccination schedule for my soon-to-be-born daughter, and probably skipping what I personally believe to be superfl... more »
    BlowJoy: I worked for an org trying to eradicate polio, which is still common in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. The org gives out oral polio vaccine (a... more »
    betterfishtofry: So how many people know that childhood vaccines wear off and as adults you need boosters? I did not know this until I caught whopping cough last fall ... more »
  • #weirdscience

    Who Needs Science Or Feminism When There's Jenny McCarthy?

    Amanda Marcotte at Pandagon puts her finger on host of problems that come along with not getting your child vaccinated because former Playmate and Singled Out host Jenny McCarthy says it causes autism.