Jenny McCarthy Is Still an Anti-Vaccine Influencer

The Real Truth About Vaccines

While there are many more popular anti-vaccine influencers around these days, it is helpful to understand that Jenny McCarthy is still around.

Returning to scare people about the MMR vaccine during the biggest outbreaks of measles in 30 years is not a great flex for Jenny McCarthy, who is now in her own battle with mold poisoning.

And she is still pushing misinformation about vaccines and autism.

Remember that the next time you watch The Masked Singer…

Jenny McCarthy Is Still an Anti-Vaccine Influencer

Why is that important?

Well, she has a prominent place in the history of the modern anti-vaccine movement!

Did Jenny McCarthy or “her community” ever consider that there were many other reasons that better explained why more kids were being diagnosed with autism?

Remember, she began scaring parents with her many appearances on Oprah, Good Morning America, Larry King Live, and 20/20 in 2007 to promote her book about how she cured her non-Indigo autistic son who got the “autism shot.”

That led to the Green Our Vaccines rally with Jim Carrey in 2008 and being the face of the anti-vaccine Generation Rescue organization.

“But it feels far too scripted to be taken seriously, and a too-obvious ploy for McCarthy to appeal to the constituencies she has alienated over the years, as she insists now that her anti-vaccine views were misunderstood. Once again — and we can’t say it enough — a reality show will never be a way to fix a reputation that’s already damaged that badly.”

Jenny McCarthy tries to mend her anti-vaccine reputation with reality TV. It’s too little, too late.

And then we didn’t hear her talk about vaccines that much, as other anti-vaccine influencers took over, and she had her Donnie Loves Jenny reality TV show, her year on The View, and now The Masked Singer.

Why do we give anti-vaccine celebrities huge public platforms that make it even easier for them to spread their misinformation about vaccines?

Now she’s back though, and once again, she is pushing the idea that the MMR caused her son to be autistic.

But did it?

Let’s see what other people have said about Jenny McCarthy over the years, as her story has so often changed:

• Jenny McCarthy’s son was never autistic?

• Fanning the vaccine-autism link

• Jenny McCarthy setting the record straight…when it suits her

• Jenny's McCarthy's vaccine narrative called into question

• Measles are back but where is Jenny McCarthy?

• Jenny McCarthy's Mother Warriors

• The View Just Got A Little More Indigo Child

• A Jenny McCarthy Reader, Pt. 1: The birth of a star and an embrace of “Crystal Children”

• A Jenny McCarthy Reader, Pt. 2: Jenny brings her anti-vaccine views to Oprah

• A Jenny McCarthy reader, Pt. 3: Jenny legitimizes the scientific fringe

• A Jenny McCarthy reader, Pt. 4: The real dangers in following Jenny’s advice

• Jenny McCarthy backs away from vaccines

So did her son have autism?

Did she really ‘recover’ him from his autism?

Anti-vaccine influencers are helping to prop up a billion-dollar industry that preys on the false hope that their treatments can recover, fix, or cure autism. And much of it started with Jenny McCarthy and her Generation Rescue.

Is he autistic again?

“I oppose you and your activism because, even after it has been thoroughly debunked, you’ve peddled the idea that the vaccines we give our children can also “give” them autism. In using your celeb- rity status to peddle this nonsense, you’ve helped perpetuate the idea that having autism is something that should be avoided, and you’ve also played a role in convincing parents to avoid vaccines.”

My Open Letter to Jenny McCarthy

And most importantly, why has anyone ever given Jenny McCarthy a platform to talk about vaccines and autism?

Jenny McCarthy was right! Measles is back. Of course, she wasn’t right about vaccines. They have always been safe, with few risks, and still aren’t associated with autism.

After all, the only thing that she has ever gotten right, is that measles and other vaccine preventable diseases were going to come roaring back as more people listened to her.

And oh yeah, vaccines still aren’t associated with autism and the harmful treatments she promotes aren’t going to help anyone.

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