Has Jenny McCarthy apologized for all the millions of dollars she's diverted from legitimate autism research?

Question

by pursuing her ill-informed, long misguided campaign against childhood vaccination? Has she apologized to the mothers of all the children she helped make sick by encouraging them to forgo easily available, affordable preventives for dangerous childhood illnesses or for the time, energy, and money she's diverted from legitimate streams of autism research over the years? What about for her basic fearmongering?

Answer 1

I agree that she's caused a lot of harm - I will add that her anti-autism philosophy is damaging to the autistic community, and that her support of chelation therapy is downright dangerous. I would gain at least a little respect for her if she publicly apologized for her campaign, but I doubt that will happen, especially if she still truly believes she is right despite all the evidence to the contrary.



But Jenny McCarthy isn't the only person responsible for all the vaccine-autism drama, and she's not even one of the major players. There's Andrew Wakefield, who fraudulently proposed a link between MMR and autism. The lawyer who paid him to find evidence of a link. The parents who clamored for a lawsuit because they wanted something to blame for their children's autism. The media who sensationalized everything, and who are probably the main reason some people still believe this theory. The people who choose paranoia and conspiracy theories over scientific data, or who don't bother to look at the data at all. Everyone who donates money to "charities" like Autism Speaks and Generation Rescue. McCarthy is just one of the many people involved in this mess.

Answer 2

She is a loose cannon bandwagon nitwit.



A follow-up study came out within the last week that discredited the British study that ignited the entire vaccination overreaction cult.



I don't have it in front of me, but it essentially stated that a vast majority of test subjects were already exhibiting signs of autism before they became part of the test/control group for the study.



This part was deliberately glossed over to ramp up hysteria, I tend to think that there was some ulterior agenda at stake here for creating a climate of fear over vaccinations.



I have 3 sons with autism and my middle son almost seemed to be almost normal until just before he turned 14, now his level of sensory overload is much higher than my youngest son who doesn't talk at 15, and his autism has been about the same his entire life thus far, so I know firsthand that vaccinations had nothing to do with my sons autism, the closest environmental toxin I could pinpoint that my wife was exposed to, was a form of cyanide common in un-vented blueprint development machines that she was exposed to before we were married.



She even has an old photo from the 80's of her sitting at her drafting table next to an un-vented blueprint developing machine, it resembled a small dumpster.



Nowadays, blueprint machines have mandatory outside venting of developing fumes, this doesn't do my wife or our son's autism any good.



It's too late to avert our situation and I was never looking for someone to sue, I merely wanted to find an element of causation, nothing more.



I'm convinced it wasn't vaccination related because our sons showed early signs before their first vaccinations.

Answer 3

I made my decision to not vaccinate my kids before Jenny McCarthy came on the vaccination scene. However, I'm wondering what you mean by "help make sick." My kids are very healthy, and much healthier than their vaccinated peers.



Jenny McCarthy recovered her son from autism, and has been spreading the word about autism recovery. She's done the world a lot of good.

Answer 4

Ms.McCarthy's book got me on the road to recovery for my mercury poisoned son (aka "autism"). I will be forever grateful to her.

Answer 5

Do you have any proff that she has:

Diverted millions of dollars from "legitimate" research?

Has anything to apologize for?

That she has done anything to make any child sick?

That she has caused any fear mongering?

Answer 6

Nope.

She's disgusting.