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"You Gotta Be Shitting Me"

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Jenny McCarthy vs. Autism

The headline on CNN reads "McCarthy claims autism 'cure'". My first reaction was, "you gotta be shitting me. Jenny McCarthy is claiming to have cured autism?" But when the video page comes up, the summary tells a different story: "Autism activist Jenny McCarthy is on a mission to change vaccines for children she says trigger autism." Ok, fair enough. The headline was misleading; no harm, no foul. So what's this about?

McCarthy blames her son's autism on vaccinations, a position discredited by various medical researchers whose credentials are a bit heftier than Playboy Playmate, Co-Host of MTV's "Singled Out", and Guest-Star on Nate's favorite TV show, "Two and a Half Men." I want to live in a world where minimally-educated celebrities decide they understand science better than scientists. Wait. No, I don't. Science is not the goddamned enemy. It's fine for anyone, including celebrities, to have an opinion; it's not fine for people of an advanced public profile to be openly retarded. McCarthy does say that not all vaccinations cause autism, so fortunately she hasn't driven the crazy train completely into loony canyon yet.

Oh, wait; yes she has. McCarthy did indeed cure her son's autism by changing his diet, giving him vitamins, and detoxifying the body of metals and I don't know what the other word she used was; it sounded like Candido. I can get behind detoxifying the Candido from your body, but the rest of this is fucking hokum. McCarthy says that the "Medical Community" won't admit some vaccinations cause autism because there is too much money to be made from the vaccinations that cause autism and the "Medical Community" won't admit that autism can be cured by hokum because they're not batshit retarded. She didn't say that last part, I did. I said that because I'm fresh out of patience.

That Jenny McCarthy's son picked up autism from vaccinations is a dubious enough claim, but Jenny McCarthy cured her son's autism with the kind of regimen that you'd expect to hear on a 3 AM infomercial for something some sleazebag is touting as an "Ancient Chinese Secret?" You gotta be shitting me.