But it turns out, just about anybody can get an editorial printed. And editorials advocating junk medicine are being printed with some regularity now.
But they aren't the only ones: the problem is escalating, with Oprah beginning to promote noted anti-vaccine activist Jenny McCarthy a blog, in what is expected to be only the first step in turning her into some sort of self-help celebrity (as she did Dr. Phil, apparently).
Other resources:
Washington Post article on vaccine-autism link (there isn't one)
Email Oprah! (Please!)
I don't really understand why people can't get over correlation vs causation.
ReplyDeleteJust think of it this way--if autism only begins to show signs at a certain point, and babies are being vaccinated at a slightly earlier point, then all the anecdotal evidence in the world will point out that symptoms started to occur after vaccination.
Stupidity abounds.