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Old 05-05-2009, 10:08 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Oprah signs on Jenny McCarthy as her newest protege.

Oprah's New Protg: Jenny McCarthy
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Oprah Winfrey is taking Jenny McCarthy under her wing.

Following in the heels of Dr. Phil and Rachael Ray, McCarthy has signed a deal with Harpo Productions to develop multi-platform projects, including a syndicated talk show and a blog, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

McCarthy's blog launched Friday on Oprah.com and already features three entries from the actress.

In recent years, McCarthy has been a frequent guest on Winfrey's talk show, discussing her efforts in helping her son, Evan, combat autism. She also appeared this past Friday as part of Winfrey's Friday Live panel.
I sat back and rolled my eyes when Oprah was promoting Dr. Phil, and Sylvia Browne (who apparently does not like Oprah anymore,) but this is in a league of its own. I could deal with Phil's horrendous pop psychology and Browne's fraud, but I cannot keep quiet about the anti-vaccination movement.

Medicine needs to be evidence-based and evidence-based alone. The Wakefield study relied on falsified results and an invented bowel disorder to get Dr. Wakefield's desired results. Studies of thousands of children across the world have shown no correlation between childhood vaccines and autism. The only problems caused by Thimerosal were rare allergic reactions. Through widespread childhood vaccination, we have all but eradicated diseases like smallpox and polio. In the cases of others like measles, mumps, and rubella that can have lasting effects like sterility in adulthood, we have minimized infection rates.

Vaccination is not just about the individual being immunized. Widespread vaccination produces herd immunity, which stops the spread of preventable diseases. In recent years, the hubris of the anti-vaccination movement has not only harmed the children of parents who have been conned into refusing vaccinations, it has led to outbreaks of these preventable diseases. Since June of 2007, over 18800 children have been infected with these preventable illnesses and over 160 have died.

People like Jenny McCarthy are spreading lies and misinformation, and now one of the most influential people in media has given her a bigger soapbox and a louder voice. I can't compete on that kind of scale, but hopefully things like posting this will help to generate outrage and opposition.

This isn't your typical pseudoscience that hits the wallets of its victims, this is a tangible thread to public health. Its proponents make money writing books and appearing on TV, they have their followers. They have an almost religious zeal driving them.

They also have a body count.
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Old 05-05-2009, 11:03 AM   #2 (permalink)
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This thread is useless without pictures.


That said, I'm sure that the show will have more to offer than pseudoscience. After all, she's dating Jim Carrey, and he'll have another movie to shill soon enough.
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Old 05-05-2009, 11:20 AM   #3 (permalink)
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She's pissed about her kid, but someone needs to set her straight.
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Old 05-05-2009, 11:52 AM   #4 (permalink)
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She's pissed about her kid, but someone needs to set her straight.
It's been tried. I guess we just don't have the right "mommy instinct"
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Old 05-05-2009, 11:57 AM   #5 (permalink)
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The "mommy instinct" is just an excuse. This is hubris of the worst kind. I should know, I used to be ignorant about immunizations (specifically the flu shot, but still).
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Old 05-05-2009, 12:07 PM   #6 (permalink)
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You can count me among the people who used to believe you could get the flu from a flu shot. The important thing is being willing to accept new information and look into it yourself so you don't stay ignorant.
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Old 05-05-2009, 12:32 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Or just get yourself a talk show. Case in point: Nancy Grace.
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Old 05-05-2009, 12:49 PM   #8 (permalink)
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They have an almost religious zeal driving them.
Everything associated with Winfrey has a religious zeal. How that woman has developed such a fanatical following is beyond me. When people complain about the "dumbing down" of America, Winfrey's name should be at the top of the list of culprits.
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Old 05-06-2009, 05:08 AM   #9 (permalink)
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Or just get yourself a talk show. Case in point: Nancy Grace.
I really dislike Oprah, but Nancy Grace is in a different league. The world will be a better place when she dies.
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Old 05-06-2009, 05:14 AM   #10 (permalink)
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Oprah's just a minor anoyance for me. Nancy Grace should be killed with fire then have her ashes stuffed into a cannon and fired at a toxic waste dump.

I'd say that Jenny McCarthy would fall somewhere in between except for 2 things: I've seen her vagina and after graduating from Mother McCauley High School she worked in one of the "lingerie shows" on the South Side and gave a friend of mine a blowjob (that he paid for).
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Old 05-06-2009, 05:34 AM   #11 (permalink)
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Let me know when Debbie Deb has an issue. She's more relevant because I've never seen her posed in a catholic girls uniform with her naughty bits exposed.
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Old 05-06-2009, 11:48 AM   #12 (permalink)
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[QUOTE=The_Jazz;2632938] Nancy Grace should be killed with fire then have her ashes stuffed into a cannon and fired at a toxic waste dump.

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But then Gloria Allred would get a show and be worse than Nancy Grace could ever think of being. Or that woman on Nancy Grace,...you know one of the expert's on the panel,..sigh,...I think she is a lawyer, very tanned, big white teeth, possibly Hispanic, who looks something between a monkey and a chipmunk. Wouldn't be good.
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Old 05-07-2009, 09:34 AM   #13 (permalink)
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Are you talking about Jane Velez Mitchell? Ugh..

Oprah's Cult scares me. That woman has too much power over media.
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