anti-vaxers: yelling “fire” in a crowded theater…

We’re all concerned about our children and their health. It’s in our nature. Long childhoods and parental care are key strategies to ensuring the survival of not just humans, but all mammals in general and it’s one of a number of reasons why we’ve been able to take over the Earth after the dinosaurs vanished. But sometimes, that concern turns into panic and that panic combined with a lack of information or lack of knowledge on the subject can turn malicious and harm the very kids we’re trying to

YOU get some quackery, and YOU get some quackery, and YOU get some quackery!

Oprah is giving Jenny McCarthy her own TV show, her very own dais from which to rail about the dangers of vaccines and the government/Big Pharma/American Academy of Pediatrics conspiracy to give your kids autism. And chelation therapy, the autism cure They don't want you to know about. Oh Oprah Winfrey, why must you promote pseudoscience? You have so much power; it could be used for things so much cooler than the dissemination of misinformation.

The best snark at Oprah Winfrey…

...comes, from of all places, Gawker : Oh, good, Oprah is going to give Jenny McCarthy a talk show, because she wants your kid to die of the measles . McCarthy, a famous celebrity from the long-defunct Playboy magazine and much missed MTV channel, has been on a crusade to find an evildoer responsible for her son's autism. She settled on vaccines, because why not. And now she spends a great deal of time on TV explaining that the mercury that has not been vaccines since 1999 is giving all t