Jenny McCarthy

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'''Jenny McCarthy''' aka. "Tailgunner Jenny" is an [[McCarthyism|appropriately named]] American celebrity who has, since around 2005, become the poster model for the [[vaccine hysteria|anti-vaccination]] movement.
 
'''Jenny McCarthy''' aka. "Tailgunner Jenny" is an [[McCarthyism|appropriately named]] American celebrity who has, since around 2005, become the poster model for the [[vaccine hysteria|anti-vaccination]] movement.
  
As a medical [[pundit]], she is a sincere, hard-working and very upset mother who has the [[IQ]] of soap and is not good at joined-up thinking.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGW4a96GqGc One such example]</ref> This sincere, deeply-held wrongness leads to tragedy all round.
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To all appearances, McCarthy is a sincere, hard-working, and very upset mother who has the [[IQ]] of soap and some difficulty with coherent lines of thought.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGW4a96GqGc One such example]</ref> This sincere, deeply-held wrongness leads to genuine tragedy, made all the worse by her good intentions.
  
 
In 2013, she gained a substantial audience for her [[crank]] views when she became a host on the popular ABC television show <i>The View</i>.
 
In 2013, she gained a substantial audience for her [[crank]] views when she became a host on the popular ABC television show <i>The View</i>.

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Jenny McCarthy aka. "Tailgunner Jenny" is an appropriately named American celebrity who has, since around 2005, become the poster model for the anti-vaccination movement.

To all appearances, McCarthy is a sincere, hard-working, and very upset mother who has the IQ of soap and some difficulty with coherent lines of thought.[1] This sincere, deeply-held wrongness leads to genuine tragedy, made all the worse by her good intentions.

In 2013, she gained a substantial audience for her crank views when she became a host on the popular ABC television show The View.

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Her involvement in publicly creating hysterics around vaccines began with her son, Evan. At first she opined that she was an indigo and her son was of the crystal persuasion after being told this by a random stranger,[2] but then she discovered the vaccine hysteria and latched on to that instead. She later claimed that her son's autism was caused by the mumps, measles, rubella vaccine but that it was cured through chelation therapy. She wrote a book Louder than Words: A Mother's Journey in Healing Autism and has appeared on Oprah and Larry King Live advocating quackery and marketing false hope. This celebrity advocacy of alternative treatments and vaccine hysteria has almost been a direct cause of many children becoming gravely ill due to the side-effects of alternative therapies and lack of vaccination. One has to wonder how many needless deaths of children she is responsible for.

Years later, it was revealed that her son had probably never had autism to begin with but Landau-Kleffner syndrome, which is a common misdiagnosis.[3] Despite this, Jenny will not back down from her anti-vaccine position.

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Jenny McCarthy initially studied nursing at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, but left to pursue a modelling career at the age of 21, appearing as Playboy Magazine's Miss October 1993 and Playmate of the Year in 1994. She also ended up dating Jim Carrey and both are now prominent activists for anti-vaccine fucknuts Generation Rescue.

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