Saturday, July 13, 2013

An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All

  A bloggers opinion of Jim Carrey.By Amy Wallace:  To hear his enemies talk, you might think Paul Offit is the most hated man in America. A pediatrician in Philadelphia, he is the coinventor of a rotavirus vaccine that could save tens of thousands of lives every year. Yet environmental activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. slams Offit as a “biostitute” who whores for the pharmaceutical industry. Actor Jim Carrey calls him a profiteer and distills the doctor’s attitude toward childhood vaccination down to this chilling mantra: “Grab ‘em and stab ‘em.” Recently, Carrey and his girlfriend, Jenny McCarthy, went on CNN’s Larry King Live and singled out Offit’s vaccine, RotaTeq, as one of many unnecessary vaccines, all administered, they said, for just one reason: “Greed.”...http://www.readability.com/read?url=http%3A//www.wired.com/magazine/2009/10/ff_waronscience/all/1. See:  Medical myth: childhood vaccinations are dangerous

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