Jenny McCarthy Calls for the Resignation of the Director of the CDC. Will You Answer Her Call to Action?
Julie Gerberding has led the CDC for 6 years during a time when the autism epidemic has only gotten worse. Despite tens of thousands of children who declined just like Hannah Poling, Ms. Gerberding stood before cameras yesterday defiant, cold, and defensive. Where is her humanity in the face of such tragedy? Why couldn’t she have said, “We at CDC want to make sure what happened to Hannah doesn’t happen to any other children, we want to make vaccines safe”?It's not clear to me exactly why Jenny feels that Gerberding's resignation is a key issue. I'm not aware that she (or anyone else) is proposing a particular individual for the position of Director of the CDC -- and I can't imagine that a replacement from the usual pool of prospects would be any likelier to support the end of vaccines as we know them. Still, Jenny clearly feels that this is the right action to take, and there's no doubt that others will follow.Rather than listen to the heartbreaking stories of so many parents, you can be sure that Ms. Gerberding is spending her time right now trying to get the Spin Machine up and running to minimize, confuse, and deceive the American public.
The autism epidemic won’t end until we fix the vaccine schedule by reducing total vaccines, separating shots, waiting until our kids are older to begin shots, greening our vaccines, and screening for at-risk kids. Ms Gerberding has stood by and watched self-interested parties more than triple our vaccine schedule and I’m certain her inactivity to help our kids will continue. The chances of Ms. Gerberding taking the radical steps to reform the CDC and reform our vaccine schedule to make it kid-safe are zero! We need a new CDC Director who is an open-minded reformer and who recognizes that we are experiencing an epidemic of autism, which Ms. Gerberding has never publicly admitted.
What do you think of Jenny's political action? Will you join her in pressing for a change in leadership at the CDC?
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This has all the appearance of a political action.
1) Try to build momentum and keep media attention focused on the vaccine/autism discussion
2) Promote Jenny McCarthy as more than just an author/entertainer but as an activist.
Will I join in? No. This is a waste of political capital by the autism community.
How about, instead, we use this limelight to get the money for the CAA actually appropriated? *That* would be an accomplishement.
Ms. McCarthy needs to stop pretending to speak on behalf of all families with children with autism. Her views are far from widely-held and amount to an advertisement of snake oil over real medicine and science. She seems to have lost track of the existence of many other medical issues facing the world and the fact that many well-meaning scientists and medical professionals, including Dr. Gerberding, are choosing to devote time to finding treatments for various diseases, including autism.
The “snake oil” she peddles and the pabulum she spreads will cause many health professionals to devote their limited time on other pursuits. Rather than helping the cause of autism, she is likely driving away the people needed for the cause. I suppose if her efforts could be replicated, all autistic kids would be healed like her kid has — but expecting unique situations involving non-repeatable variables to generalize to all situations is a trap — one that has repeatedly been exposed in the various “treatments” for and “causes” of autism now known to be false. Also, one question she should answer: why hasn’t the incidence of autism gone down since thimerosol was removed from vaccines? She should go beyond the obvious claim that it is secretly still included — that is what a thoughtful advocate would do.
It’s not just autism, it’s every auto immune issue with just about every kid your run into. Jenny is in my prayers, God Bless her. It’s a long road ahead to get anyone to admit to anything as long as those billions keep rolling in from the vaccines. Do you actually think these people care about our children. We need to inform parents that they have a right to choose, a right to research, and a right to say NO. That is where we need to focus our energy.
I respect Ms. MacCarthy’s efforts. The current vaccination schedule is horrible, and there has been no credible evidence of why it should not be changed to prohibit giving our young children 9 different vaccines in one day. A child’s body will react to that kind of intrusion. Perhaps science has not yet caught up with what a parent’s intutition yet, but it is shameful to dismiss a parent’s legitimate fears as mere stupidity.
I think I’d rather impeach president Bush before asking for Dr. Gerberding’s head. In any case, this move is pretty much a marketing ploy by Jenny/TACA. Any CDC director will be guided by science-based studies and not by what some wacko parents think it’s right. And I don’t like this type of tactics that smears people’s reputation
With Jennie McCarthy and John McCain both endorsing snake oil over science, I guess I’ll have to vote for whichever candidate actually believes in science. It’s one thing to subject your own child to your unproven theories. It’s another to endanger millions of children and their families by not preventing preventable diseases. Who will be crying to the cameras when thousands of children are born deaf and brain damaged because their mothers weren’t immunized and then were exposed to rubella? Who will be crying to the cameras when polio paralyzes thousands of children? These aren’t theories, they are preventable diseases that WILL return if children aren’t immunized. It’s happened in other countries, it’s no theory.
To the naysayers…..Unless you have personally been affected by Autism, you have no right to judge those who have! I think we have fought enough IGNORANCE, it is time to have an open book about what is really in our vaccines and it starts at the top….the people who are lining their pockets with money gained from the experimental drugs produced by BIG PHARMA should be held accountable!
To those of you who think we have a problem with the vaccines. You couldn’t be more wrong. What we have a problem with is the scheduling of the vaccines and what’s in them. Specifically the preservatives. None of us are against vaccines, what we’re against is the Thimerasol and other harmful preservatives in them. Take those out, and you won’t hear another word out of us.
Can we ask for Jenny McCarthy’s resignation? Vaccines have been around much longer than Julie Gerberding has. It’s also hard to state anything about the vaccine schedule when there’s not enough evidence. 9 vaccines also is not a typical day at the doctors, not the CDC recommendation. What happened to Hannah does not hardly reflect many parents out there whose child only received the MMR and seen a behavioral change. Julie Gerberding and Jenny McCarthy needs to focus on the actual problem: the doctor who injected 9 vaccines into an 18 month old and prevent him/her from doing that to another child.
Sorry, it looks like to me Ms. McCarthy is working the Spin Machine. Requesting Gerberding’s resignation with the autism communities help will work about as well as asking for Dr. Nancy Schneiderman removal from MSNBC.
The autism epidemic won’t end in this manner, regardless of what one believes or disbelieves. We should be working together, not asking for the removal of people’s jobs.
Why is it reasonable for the CDC to not only have no plausible explanation for where all these autistic children came from but to not even admit we have an epidemic.
Thank GOD Jenny McCarthy uses her voice to geenrate change – she speaks for so many of us who can’t be heard.
I, for one, am relieved to have her on the team helping our kids.
Thank you, Jenny!!
Jenny McCarthy’s analysis of Julie Gerberding is right on target. As with the vaccine and autism issue, Gerberding has been an advocate for special interests (mostly her own) and almost single handedly destroyed the CDC while wasting millions of taxpayer dollars on promoting herself and her friends and building her “legacy”. Gerberding continues to be the subject of multiple congressional investigations. McCarthy is not only right in demanding Julie Gerberding’s immediate resignation, she is probably being far too kind to someone who may well-deserve criminal prosecution.
I am glad that Jenny McCarthy is doing what she’s doing. BIG PHARMA is definitely to blame for the epidemic but, they will hide behind their billion dollar marketing strategies and lobbyists. Making changes will have to come from the bottom up. It won’t happen from the top down. Jenny’s voice works for me.
I don’t understand what “snake oil” people think she’s peddling. She told her story about what worked for her son. She has made it perfectly clear that what worked for her won’t work for everyone.
I’m tired of people accusing parents of being crazy for being “anti-vaccine”. PREVENTING disease is supposed to be the point….Not causing it. We want SAFE, GREEN vaccines and a safe schedule. Wasn’t that supposed to be part of the CDC’s responsibility?
I have never been a big fan of Jenny McCarthy and was a bit concerned when she came out as the latest spokesperson for the cause.
With that said I think what she is doing is wonderful.
As a parent of a sweet yet severely affected 22 year old son, whose autism was caused by an autoimmune reaction to the MMR, given to him when he was ill, I am whole heartedly behind her.
These people at the CDC with their backing of an INSANE vaccine schedule have all got to go. If Julie G. goes first then hooray!
I have NEVER EVER been anti vaccine. If I had a baby today I would vaccinate, but not in the crazy way it is done now and never ever would I allow my child to be injected with the flu vaccine knowing it has mercury in it.
My message to Jenny ~ You go girl!!!
People who keep saying there’s not enough evidence just simply never do their research to learn about all of the evidence. Even 15 years ago, vast ingredients that make up one vaccine were available to anyone who would want to learn it. Instead of continually speaking out, try reading and listening instead and you may actually learn.
Jenny McCarthy does not endorse snake oil. Have any of you ever read any books about the DAN protocol? It is hard science – all biochemistry. As far as the CDC basing their views on ‘hard science’ – get real. Do you not know that the 5 studies they claim prove vaccines are not linked to autism have serious flaws and at least one (the CA 2001 mercury out study) is based on a completely incorrect assumption that vaccines were mercury free beginning in 2001. What we are waiting for is a vaccinated vs. never-vaccinated study. Until then, let the CDC spin its brand of bulls**t and let Jenny rally as many of us as possible to let the government know that they are simply not doing enough. I salute Jenny for her effort in this.
I fully support Jenny McCarthy’s efforts. Dr. Gerberding has ignored the toxins in vaccines during a time when there is growing research (Dr. Mady Hornig at Columbia, DeSoto and Hitlan at Iowa, and many others) demonstrating the harmful effects of mercury, aluminum, and other adjuvants in vaccines. In addition, Dr. Gerberding has presided over a CDC that needlessly harms and kills animals (see PETA’s homepage), as well as shifting the limited bonus money at the CDC from scientists to her own aides. She also lied about the number of obesity-related deaths in the US and refused to back down after every major newspaper in the country cited more recent research that proved her wrong. It’s time for Dr. Gerberding to step down.
For thoes of you calling Jenny’s methods snake oil and the like first off let me tell you that most of thoes are embrased by real MD’s who are truely out to help our families and not to make more money off of us by sending us to one doctor after another to be told there is little to be done. I would also like to tell you that many of these detox teatments are working wonders for our children. The problem is that it cost alot of money because big pharm wont admit that the things they are giving our kids posin. Insurence will not pay for any of it because it is experimental. Next I would be willing to say that the only people on here who have any thing negitive to say about Jennie do not have any personal experence with autism. It is heartbreaking. My son is almost 6 and he does not speak he just makes noise. He is not potty trained. He is afriad of new people and diffrent situations. Try looking in your babys eyes and know that they are in there somewhere with no way to escape. He understands but can not communicate. It is devistating!!! So again I say DONT YOU DARE JUDGE UNTILL YOU HAVE BEEN THERE!!!! And GO JENNIE!!!
Serina~ I said negative things about Ms. McCarthy and yes, I do have a child with autism. To assume otherwise of other’s comments is also judging.
I believe no one should demand the resignation of anyone, and Ms. McCarthy is also being judgemental by even asking for it. She also has no experience to ask for such a thing. This also doesn’t mean a new replacement will change anything and can in fact make matters worse.
How would Ms. McCarthy like it if we demanded Hollywood to ban her? Ban the selling of her books and appearances? How would she like such an attack?
Ms. McCarthy said “Despite tens of thousands of children who declined just like Hannah Poling, Ms. Gerberding stood before cameras yesterday defiant, cold, and defensive. Where is her humanity in the face of such tragedy? Why couldn’t she have said, “We at CDC want to make sure what happened to Hannah doesn’t happen to any other children, we want to make vaccines safe”?”
1) 9 vaccines is not a common place thing and not comparable situation to most.
2) who is Ms. McCarthy to demand and dictate another’s emotional reaction to a situation?
3) then she went on to say autism epidemic won’t end until we fix the vaccine schedule, she is judging that all autism cases are related to vaccines
and finally 4) Ms Gerberding has stood by and watched self-interested parties more than triple our vaccine schedule??
Ms. McCarthy is nothing more than a bully. Ms. McCarthy is using the recent Vaccine Court out of context to aspire hate. She is assuming all children with autism is caused by vaccines, and that all these children received 9 in a day per the CDC, and that all our children are going to progress as her’s did per what she choose for her child. This is certainly misinforming the general public.
All parents had a vaccine choice. Unless your child was entering a day care, pre K or Kindergarten, did any have to worry about a vaccine schedule. And in most states, a waiver could have been obtained. No one has to or is forced to follow the CDC’s vaccine schedule, one of my sister didn’t either.
To demand the resignation of Julie Gerberding is putting all the blame of autism on her, when in fact most parents had choices about vaccines and if a doctor pushed them onto a parent and persuaded them to follow their schedule, then ask for offering more information to parents of actual vaccines laws per each state and educating doctors.
my son as autism but he is 15 now and it to let for me to do any thing about it. But the sad thing is I had no idea about this until now. Its awful that the kids that are in the teen can’t be part of this law suit. I feel they should pay for all the kids during that time. My son was fine until he was three. The sad thing is I had no idea what was wrong with him. The Dr. said he had ADHD this is what I been told for years then finally I found a Dr. and he told me that my son had autism. Now he doing so much better since they got him on the right meds I been dealing with this for years. The hard things is I didn’t know about the vaccine until now. But a least this all make sense to me now. NOw at least I know why my son is the why he is I just hope that the people that did this to these children pay dearly.
The facts are out and we should take them seriously. Mercury is harmful to everyone and other alternatives need to be put in place. Dentists have used mercury in filling for years and if you ask most of them if mercury is harmful to the body they will say no. Mercury is also in cosmetics. It is time for change!
Electropollution and radio waves are the cause of many diseases, yet very little information on the dangers have been publicly made known. There are other products that can help reverse the effects of these dangerous chemicals and pollutants that we live with and are seeing the devastating effects on our lives and the lives of loved ones.
Jenny has never said that what she did to help her son would also help any other child. That you had to try all that was out there to help your own child. She’s also not advocating removing all vaccines, just lets make them safer. And to the mother that said “where are the stats on the incidence of autism since removing thermosol”, they just removed this carcinogen, if at all. You have to remember to ask the pediatrician to give your child the vaccines without it. I believe it’s still in there. It’s used as a preservative in the vaccine.
I admire this celebrity putting herself on the line to save our children. She has nothing to gain from all this publicity. My daughter is twelve now and has been very sick since her first vaccine. I remember how I didn’t want her to be vaccinated so young. It was just common sense but her pediatrican played the “lets prevent horrible diseases” card and guilted me into letting them harm her. And now our lives are consumed with trying to reverse the damage or just plain old damage control. It sucks. This didn’t have to happen and shouldn’t continue happening. People wake up.
There is a recent study about the removal of Thimerosal and autism rates. In fact, many of us had been waiting for the study to be released. The rates have not decreased and in fact increased. It is also untrue you have to ask for Thimerosal-free vaccines, except for the flu vaccines. The last vaccines that contained Thimerosal in childhood vaccines expired in 2002. Everyone should be aware of that and this is why the recent study is so important to the Thimerosal being removed. If a child is born after 2002, and had their vaccines and some how has autism, one can assume it’s not related to Thimerosal.
To make vaccines any safer, the medical community as well as parents, have to look else where into the vaccines than the Thimerosal. If vaccines is related in whole to autism (which this wouldn’t be true for all with autism) people will have to investigate other things about vaccines.
Mercury, by the way, is natural to the earth and that’s where it comes from. It’s a natural occurring element. Mercury also is in every one’s houses that have heat conducting products.
I am sorry to hear about Ms. Mc Carthy’s child. My child has suffered terribly from his diagnosis of autism. In our currrent school system he is constantly discriminated against and even abused by teachers and other child. My state refuses to step in and stop the situation. We can not afford an attorney or the money we need for his therapy and medical needs.
Unfortunately, due to political overtune to this issue, I do not think that Ms. Mc Carthy’s call to ask for the CDC’s director resignation will end in the manner in which she requests. President Bush’s grandfather was on the board of Eli Lily Company when it first started manufacturing vaccines, and started using mercury and aluminum as a part of the process.
It’s not only the mercury in vaccines that is causing the problem related to autism, it’s the aluminum along with the mercury. Many autistic children are auto-immune, which many parents are not aware.
I think the medical community has a very long way to go.
Im so glad people are finally paying attention! I just wish it hadnt taken numbers of this rate to cause the attn! I look forward to rallying at the CDC with Jenny on June 28th!! Come on people, they are mandating that we poison our kids!!
In response to some of Sandy’s comments:
There are many circumstances when a demand can be made for someone’s resignation. Most of the State of New York just demanded the resignation of the governor and he only hurt one family, his own.
I am sure Ms. McCarthy is used to being criticized for many things, from her acting skills to her parenting skills. However, the federal government doesn’t have a recommended schedule for us to follow when watching her movies. She doesn’t have the ability to effect my family the way the head of the CDC can.
Also, she is NOT assuming all children who undergo the same biomedical treatments as her son will progress as her son did. In her book, and in several interviews she repeatedly said, “I am NOT a doctor.” I’m sure she had a PR person working with her to make sure she didn’t say anything that would come back to bite her in the butt…atleast as far as liability is concerned.
While there has been a study done saying the autism rate continued to rise after thimerosal was removed from vaccines, that is NOT the whole story. At the end of David Kirby’s book “Evidence of Harm” he cites a study done (I believe in California) that said the autism rates were indeed beginning to drop in 2004/2005. If the last vaccines in the early childhood schedule expired in 2002, we might not have clear data of the actual autism rates until the numbers from 2006&2007 are studied.
Research on BOTH sides of the controversy is noteworthy. It is important for everyone to remember: The results of ANY study mean very little unless you also take into account where, when and how the data was collected and, most importantly, WHO PAID for the study? AND whose name is on the study and where does that person work now.
There is still thimerosal in flu vaccines and there haven’t been enough studies done on the other ingredients in vaccines. ALSO, if there is only a “trace amount” of thimerosal in a vaccine, the manufacturer is not legally required to list it as an ingredient…..
If by mentioning that mercury “comes from the earth” naturally, you were trying to make a point that it is not just in vaccines, that is an excellent point. (But, just because it’s there Naturally doesn’t mean it isn’t harmful if we inject it into our bodies.)In a study or paper done by Martha Herbert, she mentioned a huge mercury mine in Texas near where there was a high incidence of autism and and other developmental disorders. Our vaccines are not the only problem. The biggest problem is the apathy of the people in power.
I would urge anyone who reads these comments to watch Michael Moore’s “Sicko” about Health Insurance (Big HMO’s vs. Universal Healthcare/socialized healthcare.) If you can’t stand Michael Moore films, then I would suggest “And the Band Played On” starring Matthew Modine and Alan Alda. It is a movie about the beginning of the AIDS epidemic and the discovery of the HIV and much of the controversy and cover-up that surrounded it.
As long as 1% of the people control 90% of the wealth, there will never be justice for families who are taken advantage of by BIG PHARMA, BIG INSURANCE and BIG OIL.
Julie Gerberding isn’t Hitler but, I can’t disagree with most of the things Jenny McCarthy said about her.
Jenny McCarthy isn’t Gandhi but, atleast she is using doing her part to “be the change (she) wants to see in the world”.
I don’t really rely on anything Kirby has written, however we’d be looking at an age group right now of 5 years old. Any child born after 2002 should never had been exposed to Thimerosal and more than likely has been observed to have autism prior to how old they are now.
This study is very important, keeping an open mind, mainly due to the other theory of the MMR, which never contained Thimerosal. Since that rate has never dropped, maybe it’s something else. As for other studies that claim the rates have dropped, you’ll always have those things conflicting. It really doesn’t matter where the study comes from, everyone argues it validity if it doesn’t reflect what they believe.
The removal of Julie Gerberding is quite different from a governor forking out tons of money to a escort service. Asking for a replacement to the CDC may not solve anything, and more so when most states have vaccine choice. JMO, I never see anything functional about demanding resignation and it generally does not work any way. I think it is far more better to promote working together. This demand only fuels the publics opinion of those who share the vaccine theory to autism, and no one will listen even if there is true bases to it.
I myself would think prescription drugs found in drinking water across U.S. as a potential factor in autism rates. It is an endless amount of factors to autism.
To Sandy,
You make me think harder and I like that. I understand and respect your opinion.
I think the best part of when someone does something a little crazy and controversial is that more people start talking about the subject.
I haven’t even had a chance to read anything about the drugs in the drinking water yet.
What bothers me is…how long do we have to wait until we get some real answers and how do we know who’s telling the truth and who’s trying to cover up mistakes?
Jenny McCarthy never has said she speaks for everyone affected by autism. It is like saying Lance Armstrong speaks for everyone with all cancers.
The bottom line: someone has stepped up to speak for a group that has had very little championing. I am thrilled that she is speaking out to gain attention for autism and thousands and thousands of families.
If you don’t like what she is saying – find a spokesperson who will speak for you. Or speak up yourself. Make a difference as you see fit. Its America, not communist Russia.
If Ms. McCarthy doesn’t speak for all, then she shouldn’t be asking everyone in the autism community to ask for the resignation of another person. This is the woman that admits she tried her own child’s prescription seizure medication to see what it was like. Did Julie Gerberding have anything to do with this careless, reckless and intentional act that could have caused her major complications since she doesn’t have a seizure disorder? No. This woman doesn’t qualify to be a spokes person for autism, nor a request for anyone’s resignation. She’s in Canada claiming within seven or eight months of altering her son’s diet and giving him dietary supplements, her son’s diagnosis as an autistic was lifted. She does state that the diet and detox method doesn’t work for all autistic kids but it’s still worth a shot. How about promoting testing prior to detox??
7 to 8 months and her son lost the diagnosis of autism. Well if all it took was less than a year with diet and detox, and he’s not autistic any more, why drag Julie Gerberding into it? All Ms. McCarthy should focus on then is promoting diet and detox, and then come up with a plan so all families can afford it.
I just finished a book “The sanctity of human blood” This should be on everyone’s list to take in. Is the comment about the thimerasol being removed for real? Where do you think they went with all of the stockpiled vaccines? and check out a vaccine ingredient list once? We wonder why the country is in continuing deteriorating health. How many parents do everything the almighty doctor says is “required” without a clue. Our children do not belong to the government or the CDC. `
I’ve read more than once that the vaccines containing thimerosal that could no longer be sold in the U.S. were sold to other countries….most went to China. In the years after those vaccines were sold and used in China, there was a dramatic rise in autism rates. But, maybe that was just when they started keeping better records. Atleast China has been nice enough to send us toxic toys in return (kindof kidding)…..Thimerosal has not been banned in other countries, atleast not that I know of. So, organizations like the WHO still use vaccines w/ thimerosal.
Part of the reason that autism hasn’t gotten a lot of financial attention from the government is because there are no magic pills that the drug companies can sell us to “fix” it. If people are using therapies like ABA/OT/PT/S-LT and also using special diets and supplements, the drug companies can’t profit from that and insurance companies don’t want to pay for any part of that.
As long as “the powers that be” turn a blind eye when their pockets are filled with lobbyists’ money, the policies won’t change. The frustration that that causes is what makes people like Jenny McCarthy go to extreme lengths to make noise.
Let’s stop listening to celebrites who believe in Indigo Children (which is it Jenny? You can’t have vaccines making your child’s autism worse and believe he is an Indigo child at the same time. I don’t care what she has to say about vaccines, but she knows nothing of autism.
I believe if any vaccines were shipped to other countries, it wasn’t China. It was third world countries where these childhood diseases are actually taking lives. Although I have read these stories, it was coming from particular ‘groups’. This also is probably not true any way due to how they manufacture vaccines.
More interestingly mau be the Danish studies, of wich keeps actual better medical records and removed Thimerosal before the USA did. Their rates are still climbing as well.
good grief!
Autismmomandproud, you just totally popped my balloon. If Jenny McCarthy believes anything about the Indigo Children “theory”…that bothers me. I haven’t read anything about it except for the front and back cover of one book on a bookstore shelf. It seemed like extreme fluff and nonsense.
Sandy, you jogged my memory about the Danish studies…that was in my brain somewhere and I’d forgotten what I’d read.
I’ve also read a couple of things about the health of Americans in general being worse than in developing and third world countries. Perhaps vaccines don’t have as many adverse effects on those populations because their environment doesn’t have as much industrial pollution and they don’t eat so many processed foods…etc…
http://www.childrenofthenewearth.com/free.php?page=articles_free/mccarthy_jenny/article1
check out the link and learn about “in touch” Jenny is with reality. I will hardly listen to her advice on any subject. Enjoy and have a good laugh!
AU~ that was pretty interesting. I am sorry but any one who tests out seizure medication prescribed to someone else is just not some one I would ever rely on making good decision, health wise anyway, or advising others. Indigo, alrighty then.
As for the health of Americans compared to other countries and third world countries, that may be so however many third world countries have death rates due to things we here can easily prevent or treat. Ethnic groups would also play a part into this, since some have higher risk factors for some genetic things. Interestingly, doesn’t matter what your race is, autism affects all no matter who you are.
I also seen a small study some where about what grandparents were exposed to and passing it on to generations- side affects sort to speak. You know way back when, lets say Agent Orange for an example, or maybe even Nuke testing. How is one to know down the road what effects genes or mutates them?
AU, thank you for the link. I wouldn’t have found that anytime soon. NOW I understand the people who don’t want to be grouped in the same parenting category as Jenny McCarthy….
I’m confused…if the “children of the new earth” are the next step in evolution, how can they call DaVinci and Churchill and Kennedy Indigo children? It sounds like what they are talking about is what I have heard of as Asperger’s Syndrome and ADHD.
You know what? ya don’t even have to answer me. I’m just in shock.
I am all for a healthy diet and avoiding prescription drugs…I’ll even go so far as to say a little meditation would never hurt anyone…But GEEZ, the whole Indigo thing just sounds wacky.
I posted incorrectly before as AU, but it’s me again. I need people to see this article by Ms. McCarthy. I’m calling for her resignation as a spokesperson for anything that has anything to do with my child. She goes on and on about “mommy instinct.” First of all, it is a drive, not an instinct to care for a child. And that drive does not make her a pediatrician, psychologist, immunologist or anything else that requires a degree.
It’s obvious from reading the comments whose lives have been affected by autism, for those of you who have not and are ignorant to the vaccine plight, fret not, odds are soon enough your child, grandchild or friends child with be diognosed with autism and you too can join our heart wrenching calls for some sanity with regards to the allocation of vaccines. Sanity says there is no possible way we can be putting little bits of all these diseases into these little bodies without reeking havoc on the immune system, if you don’t get autism I think other auto-immune diseases will plague this guinea pig generation.
I have more questions if anyone can help….
I looked up the book “The Sanctity of Human Blood” that Pam mentioned in an earlier post. An amazon.com page listed it for $73 or $75. i thought, “wow, is that a medical textbook? I’m not buying that.” So, I checked a website with lots of excerpts from the book… THEDOCTORWITHIN.com. Has anyone else heard of it? It looks like non-fiction…lots of footnotes, etc….but, it’s like a big collection of conspiracy theories.
Nanci~ vaccines would affect those if they had a child with autism or not. As long as there are childhood diseases and autism, it’s a topic any one and everyone should be able to contribute too with out being considered ignorant. Anyones point of views are as important as any, regardless if they have a child with autism. Many kids get vaccines and never get autism or any other thing that vaccines are suspected of causing. Vaccines is also not what autism is all about either. I have a heart wrenching story about autism which has no relation to vaccines at all.
Yes, I would.
Since Jenny and other parents are going on tv and talking about autism more people are getting inform about autism. I still do not believe that the same vaccines can help every one prevent diseases.
The whole “vaccines cause autism” conspiracy — to me — smacks of the 9/11 conspiracy underworld. No amount of science will ever convince them it is untrue. Give me a break, the pharmaceutical community is conspiring to earn profits at the expense of driving up autism rates. Actually, vaccines are not really profitable, mostly as a result of lawsuits like these. The federal government even had to create this insurance program because if they didn’t, nobody would produce vaccines anymore. Jenny McCarthy’s article on cnn.com speaks so authoritatively. But the truth is she is not an expert. She has a lot of first-hand anecdotal evidence. There are real researchers who have studied for years and are much better educated and their very broad consensus is that there is no link between vaccines and autism. If Jenny McCarthy really wanted to help kids with autism, she would raise funds for furthering the REAL scientific research that is currently going on for finding the cause of and potential cure for autism — not peddling this pseudoscientific stuff that is only distracting from genuine efforts.
Parents of autistic children and other “snake oil” proponents are not against vaccines. We are against what is in the vaccines. I am sorry that so many people are so ignorant as to make so many children suffer. The reason autism has not gone down is because there is still thimerisol out there – it will not be gone until the vaccines already manufactured with it are used up. And mercury is in the flu shot as well – far too much for a child that has a weak immune system to handle.
Jenny McCarthy’s child is not autistic. Autism is a life long disorder in which there is no cure. If her child was cured, he didn’t have autism. Don’t be fooled by anxious celebrity hype. It reminds me of post Rain man, when thousands of children were suddenly diagnosed with high functioning autism. Stop the group think. What’s more, has anyone considered the fact by the time McCarthy’s child was five, she had already written a book, hopped on talk shows, gave speeches and is now doing a movie about autism? Is this a cruel joke? What a disgusting distraction, a sick insult to thousands of families who have truly autistic children. Autism isn’t some fly by night problem that is healed by changing a diet. If that’s the case, again….your child didn’t have autism. Why is this diagnosis evolving to fit the radical agendas of a select few? Is it money? Love of fame? Pride? Denial? This is really sad. For the love of God will someone please have the courage to confront this fraud. Stop tossing red herrings into the autism mix. Stop fueling the selfish, ego fueled minds of educators, researchers and doctors who get paid a lot of dough to keep high profile cases of misdiagnosed kids going.
The only person that needs to resign is Jenny McCarthy—from speaking out against a disorder her child doesn’t have.
You’re right. The CDC Director should not be asked to resign. She should be given the death penalty for continuing crimes against humanity. If this were China, people in authority would be put to death for the harm the CDC has caused our children. Dozens of studies implicate vaccines in autism and other neurological disorders. Enough is enough.
Ms. McCarthy needs to realize that she had a child who was misdiagnosed with Autism just like, I’m sure, thousands of other children have been who only have a vaccine injury. Her story is dangerous to families who have legitimate Autism diagnosis, who’s children were actually born with the condition, because she promotes recovery and detox which don’t work on real Autism cases. False hope isn’t going to help anybody. I feel for her, and her story is an empowering one, but she stands behind something that thousands of children can not be, and will not be, healed from. I agree with most of her suggestions for vaccines, but that’s about all I support her on….
Jenny McCarthy’s anti-vax actions, and the publicity they receive, will result in people dying. Period. I’m sure she is well intentioned but she needs to try and understand some science.