Let me be added to the list of parents that see right through this rebranding campaign. Jenny believes that there are toxins in vaccines, but she can’t produce an example of one actual toxin. Jenny’s advice that some kids shouldn’t be vaccinated is counter to her rhetoric for the past four years in which she’s shouted over epidemiologists and browbeaten anyone with evidence.

Of course, it’s nice to see that she’s toning down her rhetoric and positioning herself for a return to Hollywood. There’s been too many parents who have listened to her tirades and believed them. Will they continue to listen to her now that she’s pulled herself back from the brink of craziness?

I’ll add my voice to those who think the whole not-antivaccine-just-pro-safe-vaccine stuff is BS. Vaccines are safe. The difficulty in dealing with anti-vax types is that they are constantly moving the goalposts, keeping their vague definitions of “safe” always out of reach of the data. Here’s some news for these people: any medical intervention carries some risk.

Sorry to be repetitive, but I agree with all the comments saying that Jenny is absolutely anti-vaccine. First of all, she will only accept a vaccine that has absolutely no side effect, which is impossible. (Everything you do in your life – even breathing air – has a potential side effect.) Each time one of her ideas is proven wrong, she changes what she says is “acceptable” for vaccines. She will never be satisfied.

Like Scientist says, vaccines are already safe, in that their benefit greatly outweighs their risk.

There are reports of children ‘recovering’ from autism with early intervention; of course, I question if the diagnosis was accurate to begin with.

Any speech delay in boys almost ALWAYS raises the autism specter especially in the early intervention programs.. often unwarrented to my mind. In my classroom, many of my boys who would have been described as ‘nerds’ or ‘geeks’ when I was a kid have been labeled autistic, Asperger’s or on the spectrum (referring to the autistic spectrum). When did geekdom become pathological?

What everyone else said, and also: her son is still autistic. He’s clearly doing a lot better than he was when he was a toddler, but any parent of an autistic child would instantly peg him as a kid on the spectrum.

CommentsManufacturer Merck
Microorganism Varicella zoster (chickenpox) virus, Oka/Merck strain
Licensed 07/12/2006
Recommendations Two injections in children, adults two injections
Ingredients Gelatin, Monosodium Glutamate (MSG), Human Diploid cells: MRC5 proteins, Neomycin, Sucrose, Sodium chloride, Sodium phosphate-monobasic, Sodium phosphate-dibasic dodecahydrate, Bovine (cow) serum, Potassium phosphate, Human diploid cells (WI-38), Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA), Potassium chloride, Glutamate.
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http://www.fda.gov/cber/efoi/approve.htm

Notice that an actual strain of the chicken pox virus is included in the vaccine…..that means that you get the chicken pox when you get vaccinated! The virus can lie dormant for years before you actually see the effects of it, this is why you can only get chicken pox once!

I know it is easy to focus on the quick sound bites provided by the evening news, but Jenny McCarthy never said she was anti-vaccine. If you listen to her Larry King interview, she is very careful to explain that what she was working toward was a smarter and more individualized vaccination schedule. The reason for this is that some kids (my son for instance) are have allergies and sensitivities to some of the chemicals, especially the preservatives like aluminum, in the shots that can produce catastrophic reactions and cause lasting neurological damage. My boy is 2 and requires speech and occupational therapy after just such a reaction following his first series of shots. Did we stop his vaccines, well yes, at first we did, but now he’s slowly catching up one shot at a time. This is exactly what Ms. McCarthy recommends and I applaud her for going public with her ideas. Had we not considered the vaccinations as a possible cause (his original doctor was adamant that the vaccines were not the cause) & gone ahead with the next series, my son could be dead.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/01/05/autism.vaccines/index.html