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February 4, 2010
Stupid Celebrity Tricks: Vaccines, Autism and Junk Science
Posted by The MaryHunter at February 4, 2010 2:30 PM
Earlier this week, The Lancet retracted a key study published in 1998 that linked the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine with autism. In fact, ten of the thirteen authors of the study partially retracted the paper back in 2004 in the face of mounting evidence showing no causal relation between the MMR vaccine and autism. But mindless Hollywood celebrities such as Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey kept the autism myth alive, to the detriment of who knows how many children of parents insipid enough to take medical advice from actors.
The gnomish Greg Gutfeld uses the article retraction as a departure for dressing down dingbat celebs who fire flames about things they don't understand based on unsubstantiated science.
The heart of Gutfeld's rant, in case you missed it:
I speak of Jenny McCarthy, Jim Carrey, and all the saps at the Huffington Post who by their own earnest idiocy, misled the public into skipping vaccinations. The potential result: measles outbreaks all over the globe - and ultimately, dead kids.
It's hard to make jokes about that, so I won't.
But I will make jokes about gasbags like Carrey and McCarthy, two cretins who can't be content simply making us sick to our stomachs with their work - they also gotta make our kids sick with ego-driven medical advice. Now, I'm not a celebrity, but here's my medical advice for this sort of behavior: whenever a star offers an opinion on important health matters - citing flawed studies they know a nearly comatose Larry King won't bother checking - they should be given a vaccination of their own. It should be full of lead and shot straight up their ass.
This, of course, goes for global warming/climate change useful idiots as well -- there are at least a few in Tinseltown, or so I've been told.
Hat tip: Big Hollywood.
