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Archive for the ‘Generation Rescue’ Category

An open letter to Jenny McCarthy

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

Dear Jenny McCarthy,

You start a recent HuffPo post by stating:

Parents of recovered children, and I’ve met hundreds, all share the same experience of doubters and deniers telling us our child must have never even had autism or that the recovery was simply nature’s course. We all know better, and frankly we’re too [...]

Successful blogging by Steven Novella: the Desiree Jennings story

Friday, February 26th, 2010

I stayed away from this story until now. It isn’t about autism at all, except that “Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey’s Autism Organization—Generation Rescue” decided to take the story on. Why a supposedly autism organization took on the story of an adult who was supposedly injured by a flu vaccine is not clear [...]

Andrew Wakefield’s Autism Organization?

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

There has been a major push to show support for Dr. Andrew Wakefield following the clear and decisive ruling against him in by the General Medical Council and the retraction of his flagship paper in The Lancet and his departure from Thoughtful House.

I have some advice for those who are supporting Dr. Wakefield. I [...]

Jim Carrey Jenny McCarthy Definitely not anti-vaccine

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

In the recent statement released by Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy regarding Andrew Wakefield, the twosome made a number of references that clear up once and for all how they feel about vaccines. Because as we all know they’re not anti-vaccine.

Dr. Andrew Wakefield is being discredited to prevent an historic study from being published that [...]

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