Thursday, September 17, 2009 2:18 AM
Jenny McCarthy wants to kill your children.
(Or- Why you shouldn?t get medical advice from an aging
Playmate of the Year)
By Tim Doyle.
Jenny McCarthy rose to prominence in the 90?s for having an
enormous rack, and then showing all of us that rack and a little bit more in
the pages of Playboy Magazine. She went on to star in some incredibly
forgettable MTV game and comedy shows (remember MTV? No? Me either.) before she finally achieving
stardom by sucking the chrome off of Ernest Borgnine?s trailer hitch in the
otherwise pretty amusing ?BASEketball.?
And now, intentionally or not, she is trying to kill your
children and endanger the entire human race.
Think of Stephen King?s The Stand, but without all the religious
crap, but with all the death. That?s
what she?s working towards whether she knows it or not.
But first, some back story (and I apologize if this is a
little dry, but you gotta understand the science a bit before I get to the
plague that kills the world)-
Autism is a broad term used to refer to a spectrum disorder
affecting brain development, manifesting in social and communicative disorders
in children. It can improve with age,
but there is no known cure. And there is
no known specific cause, although recent research is showing a combination of genetic
abnormalities common in children with the disorder. Intense study is being done at all levels to
isolate causation and develop real treatments and possibly a cure.
In 2002 Jenny McCarthy managed to do something that probably
taxed her questionable mental powers to their limits, and had a child. This child, Evan, was diagnosed as being
Autistic in 2005. Currently, McCarthy is
going around the world, doing talk shows, radio programs, etc., telling
everyone that her child?s Autism was caused by vaccines administered around his
2nd birthday.
These vaccines have been given to our children for decades
now, and are one of the reasons that the
and other Western countries have such low infectious disease rates. We?ve managed to eradicate most of the really
scary communicable childhood diseases, and minimize the damage done by the
others. Vaccines keep us healthy. Vaccines are good.
Now, the idea that vaccines cause ?damage? to the inoculated
is not a new one, and Jenny here is definitely not the only one out there
spraying this junk onto the world?s media stage?but she is probably the most
famous. And we have to call into
question the scientific acumen of someone who got famous for showing her boobs
and making fart jokes. (That, ladies and
gentlemen is called an ad hominem
attack, and shouldn?t be allowed to make up your minds regarding this?but don?t
worry, I?ll make up for it with facts later?)
Her argument is that one of the preservatives found in
vaccines- Thimerosol which contains mercury, is at the root of the autism
?epidemic.? Jenny also says that there
is a cover-up by the FDA to prevent this from coming to light. And yes, mercury is a terrible toxin, which
can retard or damage brain development. The phrase ?Mad as a hatter? comes from
the fact that the mercury used in early haberdashery drove the hatters insane
through poisoning. But let?s look at the
facts- the amount of mercury found in childhood vaccines doesn?t exceed the
amount of mercury found in say?a few tuna sandwiches.
Flash Facts- Over
the course of the entire vaccination schedule, a child is exposed to no more
than 225 micrograms of Mercury at any given time. A 6 ounce can of tuna has 53 micrograms. Now, a microgram is ONE MILLIONTH of a
gram. Now take into the whole equation
that the PEAK serum content (meaning the amount of mercury in the blood) of
children vaccinated was 3-5 Nanograms?that means one BILLIONTH of a gram per
ml. And after 30 days ALL traces of
mercury had disappeared from the body.
(Unlike what most modern health-gurus would have you believe, our body
is very capable of discarding toxins on its own?)
See, we all have
mercury in our body. We?re all exposed
to it, and carry a certain ?background amount? that doesn?t affect us in any way. It?s when the exposure becomes high enough
and chronic enough that we can become poisoned, and that is where the
brain-impairment can occur.
Now, mercury isn?t as toxic as say the BOTOX Jenny admits to
having shot into her aging visage, but that?s neither here nor there. Or is it?
Jenny frequently talks about ?toxins? in the environment and medications
contributing to autism rates, without ever specifying exactly what toxins she?s
referring to. So, to put it another way,
she?ll say that there?s an FDA cover-up about the acceptable levels of ?toxins?
in vaccines, but the FDA?s approved use of one of the DEADLIEST toxins known to
man (botulism) are okay for your insipid doe-like face? Consistency isn?t one of her strong
suits. (And this could be considered and
non-sequitur argument, but let?s let
this one slide for old-times? sake, eh?)
To make things even more ridiculous, Thimerosol hasn?t even
been in childhood vaccines since 1999, years before her dumb-bunny womb even
conceived poor little Evan. (And I say ?poor Evan? not because of his ailment,
but because he?s saddled with this attention grabbing nimrod for a mother.)
See, in the 90?s, Autism seemed to be on the rise. Diagnosis of autism was booming (more on that
later). And this is when the mistaken
autism/ vaccine connection started to gain traction. And mercury was fingered as the culprit by
the concerned mothers of
PR rather than scientific fact, the FDA pulled Thimerosol from the childhood
vaccine schedule in 1999. (It is still
in some flu vaccines.) And lo and
behold- autism rates continued to rise.
So, what was the story here?
People are inherently dumb. They
do not understand the scientific method, statistics, or even simple logic. Here?s what was going on- Autism usually
begins manifesting around an affected child?s 2nd birthday. That is also the same time that the
vaccination schedule starts for children.
The anti-vacc people had made a classic error in logic- correlation does
NOT mean causation. Or to put it another
way- just because I?ve hoped and prayed every day of my life for the last 8
years that someone would throw their shoe at George Bush does not mean that I
CAUSED it to happen. It correlates, yes,
but it is not the CAUSATION. The
vaccine/ autism connection is simply an unfortunate coincidence.
So- why the rise in autism then? Most signs point to a broadening diagnosis,
and increased awareness. Ready for
another offensive analogy? Now, let?s
say a town has no rapes on the record.
Well, what the record isn?t showing is that in fact, this is
assaults a day- it?s just that no-one is reporting it. Now, if the people of Rape-ville start
reporting the rapes, it?s going to look like sexual assault is suddenly on the
rise in Rape-ville. But in fact, the
number of assaults is constant, it?s just that there?s now increased awareness
of an already existing problem. And if
you broaden the definition of Rape (as in, ?yes sir, it?s still sexual assault
even if you don?t climax?) you?re now looking at the TRUE number of cases. Broadening definitions of autism combined
with an increased awareness of the symptoms leads people to see a rapidly spreading
epidemic, when they look at the data improperly.
Now, the logical among us would say that was the end of the
story, but no, unfortunately not. Jenny
hopped on the bandwagon of blaming ?someone? for their child?s illness. They can?t handle the fact that we JUST DON?T
KNOW yet what causes autism, and Jenny is using her ?Mommy Instinct? (her
quote, not mine) to do what millions of dollars and scores of scientists can?t
yet do, and determined the cause of this complex disorder.
Now, here?s where she?s murdering children and may doom the human
race- people are listening to her. Stick with me here- as more and more
people buy into her BS, either through her appearances on Oprah, The View, or
Larry King or through her book- Louder than Words: A Mother?s Journey,
there is an increased fear of vaccines, and people aren?t vaccinating their children.
Now, a quick thing about vaccines- you need to make sure
about 90% of a population is vaccinated in order to prevent an outbreak of an
illness like measles or polio. Once you
start dipping below that number, you start breaking that barrier of ?herd
immunity.? That dumb-ass unvaccinated
10% will probably be fine, piggybacking on everyone else NOT getting the
illness and spreading it to them.
So, what?s the harm, you ask? Well- there?s a website for you people- whatstheharm.net. Click on the ?Vaccine Denial? and read it and
weep. WEEP!
What you?ll see is a small sample of news stories that has a
BODY COUNT associated with Jenny?s crusade against science and health.
Now before you say ?Well, I guess that?s sad, but if people
aren?t getting vaccinated and then they get sick and maybe die, that?s their
fault for being dumb, right?? On the
surface, I?d have to agree with you. I?m
misanthropic enough to believe that?s how evolution works, the dumb and slow
die off, and the rest of us will eventually get to live in a utopia free from
the dumb and slow. However, I?m also a
self-preservationist that?d put Gaius Baltar to shame. Read the site closer (or read on, either
way?)
The unvaccinated jerks (or the children of jerks) are the
four horsemen of the apocalypse. See,
once the disease takes hold in a person, it can spread even to the vaccinated,
maiming and killing them. Why is
this? Well, two reasons-
1-
Vaccines are not perfect. Even if you are vaccinated, you might still
get a disease. Sucks, but true. Odds are against it, but in a world of 6
billion people, variations will occur statistically. And speaking of variations-
2-
Mutation- a virus needs to be in a host to
replicate and spread. And once it starts
replicating, it makes millions upon millions of copies. And, SOME of these infectious diseases will
be imperfect, mutated?EVOLVED copies.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how we get a new flu strain every
year.
Now imagine having to deal with a new virulent strain of
Polio or Mumps or Meningitis every year.
You think the swine flu is bad?
You have no idea.
Cue King?s The Stand.
If you start to research this (and why take my word for it? Do your own research, dummy!) You?ll find
people making the claim that humanity has existed for 150,000 years (or 6,000
years if you are a young-Earth-creationist-dumb ass) without vaccines...what?s
the big deal? And they?d be right- IF
they?re okay with losing a 3rd of the population every once in a
while, Black-Plague style. By using
vaccines, we?re preventing these common and some-times deadly PREVENTABLE
diseases from gaining a new toe-hold in the Petri dish that is humanity, and
mutating into something new and TOTALLY apocalyptic.
But Jenny McCarthy ain?t hearing that noise. She?s so sold on the idea that vaccines and
other mysterious ?toxins? are at fault here.
In fact she?s been so strident and vocal about it that for her to admit
she?s been wrong and led people astray would mean that she?d have to face facts
that people have DIED needlessly because of her. And that just won?t happen. She and the people and organizations that
back her don?t have the intellectual honesty to acknowledge the mountain of
scientific data that shows their fallacies. She?d have to go home and face her
son and realize that sometimes, bad things just happen to our children, and
it?s no one?s fault. There?s no one to
rage against, no banner to rally behind.
There?s just the long, quiet dignity of caring for a chronically sick
child. It?s so?normal?so
un-glamorous. And that dumb bitch just
won?t settle for an average life. She?s
got to be on Oprah, inadvertently killing people with her anti-vaccine
hysteria.
What is the reason she puts forth for the supposed
cover-up? Money. She?s saying that the medical industry stands
to profit tremendously from the vaccines and causing our children to get sick
and stay sick. Think about that for a
second. Autism affects one out of 150
children. Odds are you know someone with
autism or an autistic child. You are
telling me that there are doctors and pediatricians and people working at
medical businesses RIGHT NOW that are both affected personally by autism AND
are keeping quiet about the true cause, all in the name of the almighty
DOLLAR? Bull shit. BULL SHIT.
Every person in the industry who knows the ?truth? from top to bottom is
sitting on this so that they can cash in?
Let me tell you something about ?Vast Conspiracies?- there are NO vast
conspiracies. Because the people in the
supposed conspiracies are PEOPLE. And
nothing is kept a secret EVER. The Vice
President shot a guy in the FACE and it couldn?t be kept out of the news. The President couldn?t keep something as simple
as a BJ out of the public. One simple
BJ?and Jenny-tits-a-lot wants me to believe the ENTIRE medical establishment
has been sitting on this one for decades?
Bull Shit.
And if I haven?t yet convinced you of this complete
lunatic?s inability to think properly, let me take one parting shot-
Jenny McCarthy believes her child is a Indigo-Child ?
and she herself is an ?Adult Indigo.?
WTF? Yes, WTF indeed-
From ChildrenOfTheNewEarth.com-
?The day I found out I was an
adult Indigo will stay with me forever. I was walking hand in hand with my son
down a
this women approached me and said, ?You?re an Indigo and your son is a
immediately replied, ?Yes!? and the woman smiled at me and walked away. I stood
there for a moment, because I had no idea what the heck an Indigo and
but I seemed so sure of it when I had blurted out ?Yes!? After doing some of my
own research on the word Indigo, I realized not only was I an early Indigo but
my son was in fact a
From that point on things in my life started to make sense.? ?Jenny McCarthy
So?uh yeah. She?s a
complete lunatic. Millions of people
across the world are taking this woman?s advice over their doctors and
pediatricians. And because of that,
people are dying. This woman got famous
showing us all her boobs, had fake boobs in, fake boobs out, complains about
toxins while shooting her horse-face full of one of the deadliest toxins known
to man (Botulism marketed as Botox), ate her fake vomit on MTV, and believes
her son is a new-age ?Crystal Child?- the next step in humanity evolving into
higher beings. And she might just kill
your child and the human race.
One final note- this problem will not get better. Oprah, who inflicted the curse of Dr. Phil
upon us all, has turned her production company onto a new program coming out
later this year- A Jenny McCarthy talk show.
The end is nigh.
Thank you sir! Sorry for the weird formatting...that'll teach me to cut and paste out of Word. It's something I'm pretty passionate about, and it is that strange point in which Celebrity, Entertainment, Science, and Belief all converge. And it's a dangerous brew.
I agree with what you're saying here. Claiming that vaccines have anything to do with Autism has been very well dis-proven (as much as you can prove a negative).
I sit here and have a lot of sympathy for the situation with her child. Ever since becoming a dad, I totally understand the overwhelming need to protect my kid. In my case my daughter has a life threatening peanut allergy, and I always have this level of simmering terror that at school some kid with a peanut butter sandwich will do something stupid around her, and that will be the end. I can sympathize with Ms. McCarthy's desire to understand what's happening with her child, yet her lack of critical thinking is reckless.
Jenny is an example of how in her business of being an "entertainer" (in her case pretty face and amusing attitude) doesn't require critical thinking skills. I'm not saying an entertainer can't think critically (there are plenty of examples of those who do), but critical thinking skills aren't necessarily selected for in a "performer" (very loose term, I admit); creativity, personality, and looks are the favored attributes. (Yes, I'm sounding Darwinian.)
And her stance on the drug industry isn't without some merit. Drug companies aren't charities, and they want to make a profit, but you can't/shouldn't throw the baby out with the bath water when dealing with the pros and cons of how the industry is run.
Here are some links (and one book) people might want to routinely check out:
Neurologica Blog (http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/)
Autism's false prophets : bad science, risky medicine, and the search for a cure (http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Autism%27s+false+prophets+%3A+bad+science%2C+risky+medicine%2C+and+the+search+for+a+cure+%2F+Paul+A.+Offit.&x=0&y=0
PubMed (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/
Skepchick (http://skepchick.org/blog/)
Jenny McCarthy Body Count (http://www.jennymccarthybodycount.com/Jenny_McCarthy_Body_Count/Home.html
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Thanks for posting this. I've considered doing it myself on some topics but didn't know if it would fit in murmur. It does, so thanks for taking that first step!