Jenny McCarthy on Larry King & Autism & Vaccines 4/2/2008 (part 3)

[DavidS1231]

To all of those who have been kind in their responses to this video, thank you! And you may want to look at FINDING THE WORDS - Children Recovering from Autism. It is a great film and should be seen by everyone! Also, USA Today has had articles regarding autism. One of the articles is very interesting. According to USA Today, there has been research which has found a high incidence of autism in families that also have a history of autoimmune disorders.

[DownRightLeftUp]

God she is so annoying, she constantly interputs these doctors, then yells at them to let her speak.

[ashleypr90]

She is so disrespectul, it's not even funny. You don't have to interrupt the doctors and have an attitude towards them to prove your point. Wow...

[Qdrum803]

to be honest id rather have a few autistic kids than have small pox and polio to come back

[youngidealist]

Yelling and anecdotal evidence from mothers does not make you correct. Science isn't based in bitching, it's based in research and testing. If you want to be a part of it, study the science, get a degree and venture out to find the truth directly.

[Southsider75]

She is so annoying...it would really be nice if she wouldn't so ignorantly interrupt. She repeatedly interrupts the doctors when she wants to, but when "her guy" talks she says, let him talk, let him talk. I wish she would shut her big, stupid mouth and take her own advice.

[guidav123]

"the omish is a signeficant genetic group"

lol that is the dumbest thing i have ever heard.

[16raincoat]

@guidav123 It's the Amish and they are a specific genetic group. They mate within the group, which means that they are isolated from certain disorders and have a higher prevalence of others.

[guidav123]

LOL what ever!

[minah99]

Who cares if she isn't a doctor. She has watched her child recover from autism and that's amazing. "Leave it to the medical community"......I'm sorry but as mothers we have to have an active role in our children's health and not simply leave it in someone else's hands.

[Qdrum803]

how can you argue with sombody who has had years of training though, when you do not have any, if a doctor says your kid needs a certin shot, what makes you think you can argue its just stupid. she can give all the facts she wants but qulity of life and life expectancy have gone so far up since the introdution of vaccines and thats the bottom line.

[bana1685]

how come no one has mentioned that we don't see autism developing at 11-12 and 13-18 when kids are getting their second and third dose of Tdap or in college when many students are vaccinated against the meningococcal virus...?

[KimberlyMahurin]

because children at that age have well developed immune systems. If you were listening you would of heard her state that the vaccines are given too much too soon. The doctor says it too.

[KimberlyMahurin]

ok, I just looked at your profile. Your a youngster who just doesn't get it . Think how you would feel for your own child. Then rag on McCarthy.

[bana1685]

"do we really need all of these? i mean, come on, honestly..."....she sounds so stupid. if you read any scientific literature, you would know each of hte vaccines out there is for a specific disease that plagued the US decades ago...thats is why each of these specific vaccines were developed. and the reason we need to redose some vaccines is because of a decrease in the antibody titer.

[bana1685]

omg, i'm sorry but jenny mccarthy sounds so uneducated in this interview. her argumentative points have absolutely no scientific evidence and she is merely spitting that she probably googled earlier that day. she needs to leave the discussion to the doctors, and i think she realized that at 4:30 when she gave up and let the guy next to her talk. all jenny mccarthy can provide is the anecdotal information of a mother of a son with autism. continued...

[bana1685]

she really, really needs to sit down and read through and evaluate the scientific literature and clinical trials done on vaccines and autism instead of spitting out random pieces of information that have not been proven and instead of creating a makeshift chart of the vaccines out there...u would've thought she could at least be more professional about it and use the CDC's recommended immunization schedule. her lack of knowledge only makes her look stupid and stubborn.

[KimberlyMahurin]

The mothers of autistic children have left the discussion to doctors for years and we get no where!! We live the trauma. I take it you dont have any children. Nothing is going to change unless mothers stand and fight.

[KimberlyMahurin]

Jenny is not toting like a doctor nor is she is trying. She is a MOTHER. The problem with schools and doctors is we are not respected as knowing our own children. We are not being heard.

[guidav123]

say what you want to about jenny ,but she has done more positive curing of her son then any doctors are doing to anyone.

[DavidSaddler1231]

The controversy of whether vaccines cause autism has been around for a very long time. It is a failure of the medical establishment, the CDC and the pharmaceutical companies to clearly and convincingly describe to the public exactly how vaccines do not cause autism. The inability, or reluctance, to educate the patient, in this case, the parents, as to precisely how they have nothing to fear with vaccination, is probably the heart of this controversy.

[DavidSaddler1231]

There are a lot of families that have evidence that there children became autistic immediately after vaccination. The Poling family settled a case out of court that clearly indicated that vaccines have caused autism. But the judge was very careful in explaining that it was only responsible in this particular case. And this is also a clear indication of all of the fears regarding liability in this case. While it may be true that childhood vaccination may save lives, it comes a cost.

[DavidSaddler1231]

A relatively small percentage of children who are getting vaccinated will become autistic. Exactly why they are becoming autistic is being clouded by those parties who have the most to loose as a result of legal liability. These autistic children are the collateral damage that is the result of vaccination. As cruel as this fact is, it is the reason that the experts, that is, the doctors and the CDC, do not really want to cast any doubt on the safety of the vaccination program.

[DavidSaddler1231]

In their purely scientific reasoning, it would be better to ignore the relationship between vaccinations and autism, than to frighten all the parents in the country who might then not get their children vaccinated. These same experts believe that it is far less worse for the population to suffer a few autistic children than to risk an outbreak of epidemics that they say would cause a huge number of deaths.

[DavidSaddler1231]

But when you are the parent of an autistic child, when you are the one parent in one hundred and fifty that has to raise an autistic child, the collateral damage theory is tough to accept. And there is very little money available for the families of autistic children. Most parents whose child are diagnosed with autism, usually divorce.

[DavidSaddler1231]

Let's face a fact: Not everyone in the medical field can be trusted. There is a considerable amount of liability, possibly billions of dollars, if any scientific connection is made between vaccines and autism. But the evidence is undeniable. There definitely is a connection between vaccines and autism. Check out the Poling case. And there are quite a large number of doctors who believe there is a connection too. Check the blogs on the internet.

[edogawaranpo]

Do a web search on Jenny McCarthy and "indigo moms" or "crystal children." She previously described her son as a highly-evolved "crystal child." She referred to herself as an "indigo mom" as evidenced by the color of her psychic aura. I don't know when she changed her thinking about this, but she took down her "indigo moms" website in 2006. Her writings on the topic are still available on other sites.

[lokitrick123]

Really? I never knew that, thank you for this information.

[narutojun]

who cares if jenny is an "indigo mom." I'm a crazy Christian who believes that some peasant man walked on water and fed the masses with 2 pieces of fish. oooooo. None of these beliefs affect the reasons behind the autism epidemic.

[edogawaranpo]

I'm a Christian too (Catholic) and a teacher. The point is Ms. McCarthy has jumped from one implausible "explanation" of her son's condition to another, and continues to spread misleading information. Even labeling it an "epidemic" may be incorrect--it's possible it has always existed in the same numbers, but is just being diagnosed more often. Some of those diagnoses may also be inaccurate. It's a complex issue; trying to oversimplify it as McCarthy has done is counterproductive.

[gareburraka]

jenny's on a rollll