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Jenny McCarthy Ready To Bare All For Autism
Jenny McCarthy has a new idea to fight autism
Since her son was diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder, Jenny McCarthy has done a lot as the celebrity poster mama for austistic parents.
Jenny has written misleading books, appeared on Oprah blaming vaccinations for the escalating incidence of autism, and opened a center for the treatment of autistic kids near where she lives. She’s campaigned relentlessly in defense of the discredited researcher Andrew Wakefield.
Jenny McCarthy has probably done more to single-handedly reduce the vaccination rate in this country than any other individual. The Jenny McCarthy Body Count keeps track of deaths due to vaccine-preventable illnesses, and lays the blame at her influential feet.
Now, she has a new idea to help autistic children. One that plays more to her strengths.
Jenny says she’d pose nude in Playboy again, if the money went to help autistic children.
For this, she gets some respect even from me. There’s nothing wrong with posing naked in a magazine. I admire her willingness to ante up her real skills for the cause: Jenny’s not a scientist, or a medical expert of any kind. But she’s an impassioned activist with a famous name and a great body. Why not use her real assets to help kids, instead of promoting her crazy theories?
The real problem with Jenny’s activism, of course, is her focus on vaccines. She’s such an effective spokesperson for her cause, she lends credibility and popularity to what would otherwise be a thoroughly debunked theory. Because she’s so good at staying in the spotlight, Jenny distracts attention and money away from research and programs that really could be making a difference in the lives of autistic children and their parents.
Here’s a better idea, Jenny: Instead of posing for Playboy, go to med school. Then come back and be a spokesperson for real autism research. That would be awesome.
Photo: Duncan Arsenault
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7 Comments
MnMama commented on Oct 26 10 at 6:09 pmIt makes me sad to think of the children are vulnerable to terrible diseases because of the hype Jenny McCarthy was able to generate with her anti-vaccine stance.
I am curious to know who will foot the bill for an outbreak of something that is completely preventable. Certainly not Jenny McCarthy – my guess is that she’s a bit past her prime and won’t rake in as much money for nude shots as she thinks.
Daddy commented on Oct 26 10 at 11:06 pmIf only people would do their research. She’s said a zillion times: “I’m not against vaccines, I’m against the toxins and metals in vaccines.”
Marj commented on Oct 27 10 at 1:01 pmActually, med school sounds good. I would take that seriously. “I am so committed to doing something about Autism, that I am going to med school”! That would be an impressive stance.
Tony Bateson commented on Oct 27 10 at 3:26 pmComments If Jenny McCarthy’s crime is that she has misguidedly blamed vaccines for her child’s autism then I have to say that her intuition is brilliantly misguided and I hope she keeps it up because the flat earthers who revile her thinking will finish up in the devil’s pot along with the coercive and collusive drugs industry that so despises her. Did anyone notice the research that said that mercury damages eyes and there is scientific proof to demonstrate this in respect of animal science. Well thirty five years later it simply adds to what I learned at that time how my autistic daughter’s eyes were affected in such a way that she had to watch television through peripheral vision out of the sides of her eyes. One more bit of evidence closing the loop around Thimerosal.
Tony Bateson, Oxford, UK.
FreeSpeaker commented on Oct 27 10 at 5:01 pmLet’s be perfectly clear…Jenny is anti-vaccine, even though she denies it. What she wants is a 100% safe vaccine, and, she has been told that this is impossible.
Jenny should pose, just as long as the parts are labeled “Enhance by silicone” and Botox Used Here.
Cordelia commented on Oct 27 10 at 9:31 pmI hope the commenters who field Ms. McCarthy’s views about vaccine are valid will take a moment and read this: http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=14
I’ve tried to read as much as I can on both sides with an open mind, and started out, myself, as a cautious parent who did not want to over-vaccinate… but the science if anything suggests the opposite of vaccines leading to autism.
McCarthy’s dangerous views on autism don’t begin or end with her stance on vaccines, which is admittedly complex but ends up encouraging most people not to vaccinate.
David commented on Oct 27 10 at 9:52 pmMy big problem with the post is that it sets up posing nude and med school as mutually exclusive. This is clearly a “both/and” situation. More importantly, Playboy could commission some actual scientists to explain both why following McCarthy’s advice is potentially fatal for your children, and why her science is wrong. Then we could all read Playboy for the articles.
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