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7 Celebrity Activists Who Make the World a Better Place (Original Post) mr blur Mar 2013 OP
McCarthy doesn't belong on that list, at all Warpy Mar 2013 #1
A child killer hailed as a heroine Act_of_Reparation Mar 2013 #2
Ugh LeftishBrit Mar 2013 #3

Warpy

(113,131 posts)
1. McCarthy doesn't belong on that list, at all
Tue Mar 12, 2013, 11:33 AM
Mar 2013

She's a medical ignoramus who refuses to be educated.

LeftishBrit

(41,307 posts)
3. Ugh
Wed Mar 20, 2013, 07:35 AM
Mar 2013

Not long ago, I was teaching developmental psychology to some American visiting students, and the topic of autism came up. One asked, "Has it been definitely proved that vaccinations cause autism?" I said that, insofar as one can prove a negative, it had been virtually proved that they don't, and described some of the evidence. She thanked me and said that she had known little about autism, and had mostly heard about it through Jenny McCarthy.

I remember the time that this debate came up on the Health Forum on DU2, and one poster said that Jenny McCarthy MUST be right, or why would people have given her TWO book contracts!

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