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mercuryblues

(14,537 posts)
Mon Mar 17, 2014, 03:45 PM Mar 2014

the Internet Slam Dunk

Jenny McCarthy Asks; the Internet Slam Dunks

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/03/17/jenny_mccarthy_antivaxxer_gets_remedied_on_twitter.html

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By now you know about anti-vaccination mouthpiece Jenny McCarthy. I’ve written about her many times: how she claims vaccines cause autism (they don’t), how she “cured” her son of autism with a gluten-free diet (she didn’t), how she rails about vaccines being full of toxins (they aren’t) while literally injecting her face with the single most toxic protein known to science.

Yeah, that Jenny McCarthy. It’s possible she’s more well-known in the general public for being a comedian, host of the The View, and of course a Playboy model, but on the ‘Net she’s widely understood to be a voice for frankly dangerous anti-vax nonsense.

On Thursday, McCarthy asked a question of her fans on Twitter to see what they’d say. What she got was a dose of the reality she helped spawn.


/While I do love getting diseases that were eradicated in the last century, I would say vaccinated is a trait I look for


more at:

https://twitter.com/hashtag/jennyasks?f=realtime
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