Another Thing

While you're taking a look at McCarthy's website, be sure to browse her shop to see the kinds of things she sells to parents with autistic children. They range from completely unrelated to...well, actually, that's about it.

The Vaccine Bunny

Look, I'm not saying we should completely ignore anything Jenny McCarthy says about vaccines and autism just because she's a playboy bunny and an idiot. But I am saying that we should probably ignore her because she knows absolutely nothing about vaccines, and her ideas about autism differ drastically from the accepted norm. Today I went to her website, and what I saw there actually managed to surprise me. The doctor who works in tandem with her, Dr. Jerry Kartzinel, had something very interesting to say about autism in the preface to her book:

I'm sure the family members of autistic children who saw that and were any kind of sane were appalled, and we should be, too. Dr. Kartzinel is a board-certified doctor and a fellow in the American Academy of Pediatrics. I think it's pretty safe to say we should all, always be wary of the information we get, and not just assume that if it's from a source with an MD after his title, it's true.