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Archive for the ‘Jenny McCarthy’ Category

Jenny McCarthy backs away from vaccines

Thursday, February 3rd, 2011

As I blogged recently, Paul Offit was a guest on a US show called The Colbert report. Whilst emailing him about his appearance he mentioned the following: Of interest, one of the show’s staff said that xe had been called by Jenny McCarthy (which I assumed meant Jenny McCarthy’s handlers), who told xyr not to [...]

Jenny McCarthy joins the defense of Andrew Wakefield

Wednesday, January 12th, 2011

One of the defenses of Andrew Wakefield is that his paper doesn’t actually claim to have proven that MMR and autism are linked. You can find it in the interviews, you can find it on the Generation Rescue (Jenny McCarthy’s autism organization) website: The mainstream media is in a frenzy over a new “study” claiming [...]

2011 – The Last Year For ARI’s DAN! Doctors

Sunday, January 2nd, 2011

As late as just a few months ago, The Autism Research Institute (ARI), promoted their upcoming Fall 2010 Defeat Autism Now! conference in a monthly newsletter. Note the name of the conference: “Fall 2010 ARI/Defeat Autism Now! Conference” http://www.ariconference.com/enews/enewsletter_201010.html Now look at ARI’s promotion of their Spring 2011 conference. “Spring 2011 ARI Conference (formerly known [...]

Autism does not cause divorce

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

A new study at IMFAR reports: Brian Freedman, PhD, lead author of the study and clinical director of the Center for Autism and Related Disorders at Kennedy Krieger Institute, said the findings seem to debunk a lot of the general understanding about high divorce rates among parents of children with autism. Dr. Freedman and his [...]

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