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Archive for the ‘Laura Hewitson’ Category

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 [...]

Is Wakefield being shut up, or are Jenny and Jim trying to get publicity for his research?

Friday, February 5th, 2010

In a public statement, Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey claim that “Dr. Andrew Wakefield is being discredited to prevent an historic study from being published”. Readers of LeftBrainRightBrain are already well aware that Dr. Andrew Wakefield was recently found to be “dishonest” and to have acted in a manner against the clinical interests of the [...]

Conflicts of interest, whats good for the goose…

Monday, July 28th, 2008

As recently blogged by Autism News Beat, CBS Evening News (an American news outlet) recently performed an investigation into ‘how independent are vaccine defenders’? Something of an exercise in futility, it concluded that: Ideally, it [vaccines] makes for a healthier society. But critics worry that industry ties could impact the advice given to the public [...]

Age of Autism still don’t get it

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Over on our favourite pompous blog, the authors and readers still seem to have trouble processing their collective importance to autism related science (none at all) as well as how successful politicians are at directing science (not at all). They flourish a letter from the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight of the [...]

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