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. [...]
When I found that the Autism Omnibus Proceeding expert reports were public, the first one that caught my eye was by Andrew Zimmerman. Obviously, it caught Kev’s attention too :)
But, I have only a brief time available today, so I will start with this letter by Dr. Michael Oldstone. It is brief enough [...]
Note: I didn’t do my homework—Ms. Attkisson has discussed the Hornig paper. She manages to do exactly what we would expect: toe the ThoughtfulHouse line. The blog piece by Ms. Attkisson was posted while I was finishing my fax, given the time stamp.
As you will read below, I didn’t find Sharyl Attkisson’s recent [...]
