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Green Our Vaccines: science, slogan or smoke screen?

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

In June, 2008, Jenny McCarthy of Generation Rescue led the “Green Our Vaccines” rally in Washington. The stated reason for the rally was to “Demand Congress take action to Green Our Vaccine Supply while reassessing our current vaccine schedule.” They weren’t anti-vaccine, they were anti-toxin. How sincere was this movement? Consider this question and answer [...]

Posted in Autism, Generation Rescue, Green our Vaccines, Jenny McCarthy, Orgs | 5 Comments »

Age of Autism Abandon Pretence

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

To many of us who have been following the online ‘careers’ of the various people and factions behind Age of ‘Autism’ for many years (at least 7 in my case) this will be no surprise but it still needs pointing out once more: The Age of ‘Autism’ blog is a repository of and a flag [...]

Posted in Age of Autism, Autism, Blogging, Green our Vaccines, H1N1, Paul Offit, Science, Vaccines | 15 Comments »

A quicker guide to the ‘Green Vaccines’ Initiative

Monday, November 30th, 2009

Some music to accompany this entry. Over at AoA, Kent Heckenlively must be making the rest of the crew nervoous. Maybe you haven’t read his brand new idea for making the ‘green our vaccines’ initiative a political…um…’force’. To whit: We’re not going to get anywhere with our current legal system because everything gets funneled into [...]

Posted in Advocacy, Age of Autism, Autism, Blogging, Green our Vaccines, MMR, Mercury, Vaccines | 8 Comments »

Fallout of the vaccine-autism scare: Measles in Wales

Friday, April 24th, 2009

Jim Carrey, Jenny McCarthy, Andrew Wakefield…what do these people have in common? They have all helped promote fear of vaccines—especially the Measles/MumpsRubella (MMR) vaccine—by claiming there is evidence vaccines cause autism. To be fair, Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy relatively new to the scene, unlike Dr. Wakefield, whose flawed research really fueled the fear. Perhaps [...]

Posted in Autism, Generation Rescue, Green our Vaccines, Jenny McCarthy, Jim Carrey, MMR, Measles, Rick Rollens, Vaccines, Wakefield | No Comments »