I love Jenny McCarthy. Seriously. She’s a hot train wreck. She’s got a new opinion piece up on Huffington Post and its worth a read. It’s kind of like listening to the crazy guy on the street corner, but it is entertaining.
Jenny McCarthy has some pretty radical ideas about autism. She still adheres to the long-disproven belief that vaccines cause autism. OK, so McCarthy doesn’t understand science, but let’s not let a little thing like science get in the way of a good time.
In her Huffington Post article she says she doesn’t really want to talk about vaccines, she wants to talk about recovery. Yet she doesn’t talk about recovery – a pity. You see, Jenny McCarthy single-handedly discovered the cure to autism. She knows how to reverse the disease. She was able to cure her own child’s autism. Yet, selfishly, Jenny McCarthy refuses to share the cure with the tens of thousands of parents in America who also have children with autism. Why? Is she afraid that parents will learn the truth? Who’s afraid of the truth? Evidently, it’s Jenny McCarthy.
But the most intelligent thing is McCarthy’s closing line: “Who’s afraid of the truth? Usually the people it would hurt the most.” She’s right. Parents are afraid of the truth. It’s easier to blame everything on something external – vaccines, big bad drug companies and the government – rather than accept the truth: there’s not one single boogie man to blame. Autism disorders seem to have a multitude of factors: genetics, age of the parents at birth, mother’s consumption of fish during pregnancy, and mother’s substance abuse during pregnancy. It feels better to blame vaccines, drug companies and the government rather than your actions during pregnancy. However, just because it feels good, doesn’t mean it is reality.
Speaking of reality, a survey of parents found that 1 in 4 parents are convinced that vaccines cause autism (no doubt, they’re listening to Jenny McCarthy). Coincidentally, that’s the same percentage of people that believe in Big Foot, are still convinced that there are Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq, and that HIV was engineered by Europeans to kill off Black Africans and take over the continent.
We can continue down the road of foolishness and believe that vaccines cause autism. Or, we can stop wasting time and resources, instead focusing on those things that are actually associated with autism. Thousands of children are suffering with autism – it’s time to get them the real help they deserve and stop wasting time.
