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Jenny McCarthy's Autism Crusade: Healing, Hope... And Controversy

Jim Carrey: The Judgment on Vaccines Is In???

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-carrey/the-judgment-on-vaccines_b_189777.html

Since when did Jim Carrey become an expert on vaccinations, clinical trials and the scientific method? Yesterday I was horrified to look at Huffington Post and see, on the front page, the article linked to above. Here’s the thing, this has been studied in multiple instances and no causative link between autism and the schedule of vaccines has been found. None. Zip. Nada. Bupkis. Yes, I know that Jenny McCarthy says that there is and so does Jim Carrey but that doesn’t mean that they have bugger-all idea of what they are talking about. Rather, it means that they have bought into a lot of woo ideas about science and medicine and have also imbibed the conspiracy theory view that there are these sinister forces moving behind the scenes. Neither holds any water what-so-ever. My concern is not for those people who are educated in the relevant science enough to know the difference between evidence-based and woo-based medicine. Rather, my concern is for those kids who rely on herd immunity for their own safety because they can’t get vaccinated. The rest of us being vaccinated is all that protects them.

Perhaps it’s just me but I think that perhaps Mr. Carrey and Ms. McCarthy might want to actually read some of the actual literature. Anecdotal evidence is not something to rely on in making public policy.