Comments on: Amanda Peet and the Streisand Effect

By: Autism Blog - Cookie Mag talks to the expert (not plural) | Left Brain/Right Brain

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:00:20 +0000

[...] story short, after statements, an apology (but not backpedaling!), lots of internet discussion, a threat here and there, Cookie Magazine now has posted some interviews with Dr. Offit (vaccine [...]

By: kristina

kristina — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:54:00 +0000

....course them ice cream cones cause autism——casein and gluten fest all in one drippy dessert.

By: Sullivan

Sullivan — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:45:41 +0000

Amongst the places this is also being discussed:

http://www.washingtonindepende.....mommy-wars

By: Vaccination wars « Later On

Vaccination wars « Later On — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:40:41 +0000

[...] and her decision to do a pro-vaccine promotional ad infuriated the vaccine skeptics, some of whom wrote menacing letters to Peet and her retinue. Has the public zeitgeist turned on the activists who, blaming vaccines for [...]

By: Kev

Kev — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:10:40 +0000

I call ‘good’ :)

By: Catherina

Catherina — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:33:14 +0000

I found it hilarious, but then, I am in that mood today.

By: Evonne

Evonne — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:12:48 +0000

Hm. Now, for some reason, I feel bad about the comment I just posted. LB/RB, your call.

By: Evonne

Evonne — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:48:02 +0000

I just wish more of the media, when referring to Jenny McCarthy’s take on anything, would drop in a little tidbit on how she believes in that Indigo crap. Exposing the total ridiculousness of the anti-vax phenomenon may help stop all the needless research to prove again and again and again what real science already knows to be the truth.

‘Hmm, I think ice cream cones cause autism!’

‘No, ma’am, we’ve done research and they don’t.’

‘But Billy didn’t start being autistic until I gave him that ice cream cone!’

‘No, ma’am, the ice cream cone is not the cause of him being autistic. We’ve done dozens of multicenter studies and there is no evidence of that.’

‘But I’ve been taking him to a certified healer at a very important institution for ice cream-removing treatments for a month and he’s making so much more eye contact now!’

‘But ma’am, we tested his ice cream levels and they were normal.’

‘Oh, but that’s because you didn’t test them for when they were not not normal based on a not-normal-to-normal level and that was before the treatment!’

‘Huh?’

‘Exactly. You should definitely do more tests. They’re poisoning our children! Billy is recovered! I mean he’s a spirit guide! I mean, they’re poisoning our children!’

By: Sullivan

Sullivan — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:09:54 +0000

Kelli Ann,

The “Here is Amanda Peet saying vaccines are good” story isn’t going away, because it’s true.

The “vaccines and mercury are the cause of autism” story is going away. It may take a while. Your friends may never agree. But, look, the thimerosal story is already closing.

The vaccine rejectionism side of the story will likely never go away. That isn’t a statement that it’s right. Our good friend at AutismNewsBeat can point you to a number of stories which float around still, even though they have long since been discredited.

But, back to autism and vaccines, there are two sides to this story and if a reporter wants to cover both sides, she/he is welcome to note that there is a science based side and a side which would like to be considered science based. But I don’t think that even that doesn’t have to be covered.

There are even more than two sides to this story. I look forward to reading this account.

By: Catherina

Catherina — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:22:37 +0000

“our message” as in “I don’t give a toss about my neighbor’s children as long as they are vaccinated and protect my unvaccinated child” or the (Sear’s) message “we don’t see measles here in the US anymore which is why tend to think of measles as harmless”?

The nice thing about the controversy is that you can go back to predictions when they have come true. Mine is: within the next 5 years, we are going to see measles and pertussis soar in the US and we are going to see a lot of bewildered middle class white American parents faced with the truth of “harmless” measles/pertussis and we are going to see VPD deaths. The anti-vaccine movement is going to backfire and lead to more disease and a more rigorous vaccination mandate. It will be a bitter “told ya”...