To answer unhipster's recent question...
Jan. 12th, 2011 04:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_archfiendIt seems that the journalistic sh*thammer that blasted Andrew Wakefield's bogus autism study to pieces has, indeed, completely failed to convince Jenny McCarthy of anything other toeing than the Party Line. From Respectful Insolence:
Unfortunately, dim-witted celebrities like Jenny McCarthy, who thinks that her Google University education trumps the knowledge accumulated by scientists who have spent their careers studying autism and/or vaccines, keep it (the "vaccinations cause autism" meme) alive, science be damned, medicine be damned. In her arrogance of ignorance, Jenny McCarthy thinks that her ill-informed opinion about whether or not vaccines cause autism and whether or not they are safe and effective should be taken as seriously as the science-based views of real scientists.
So, Karen, if you made a bet with somebody, prepare to collect the money. Hopefully, it wasn't the type of bet that takes into account how many days it would take The Jennoid to author such an inevitable screed. Even so, I suspect you'd still be collecting on it.
Unfortunately, dim-witted celebrities like Jenny McCarthy, who thinks that her Google University education trumps the knowledge accumulated by scientists who have spent their careers studying autism and/or vaccines, keep it (the "vaccinations cause autism" meme) alive, science be damned, medicine be damned. In her arrogance of ignorance, Jenny McCarthy thinks that her ill-informed opinion about whether or not vaccines cause autism and whether or not they are safe and effective should be taken as seriously as the science-based views of real scientists.
So, Karen, if you made a bet with somebody, prepare to collect the money. Hopefully, it wasn't the type of bet that takes into account how many days it would take The Jennoid to author such an inevitable screed. Even so, I suspect you'd still be collecting on it.
