The View
Let the controversy begin. The View has hired Jenny McCarthy to be a host. Her views against vaccinating children are legend and now she has a grand pulpit to do some more damage.” This from a recent USA Today piece:
Jenny McCarthy’s unfounded claims about the dangers of vaccines has been one of the greatest impediments to efforts to vaccinate children in recent decades,” says Amy Pisani, the executive director of Every Child by Two, an international vaccination group co-founded by former first lady Rosalynn Carter. The group wrote to The View producer Barbara Walters last week seeking to keep McCarthy off the show.
This is going to get interesting. My pediatrician friends (especially the ones who do a lot of media work) are going to go crazy with this one! Where’s the popcorn?
ABC has replaced Barbara Walers, a highly educated very talented woman with a beautiful uneducated Playboy Bunny. It deminishes my esteem for Ms Walters since I believe she is the executive producer of the program.
Everyone is allowed an opinion, even one based on ignorance. Giving her a forum for her dangerous and unfounded views is irresponsible. If she is allowed to be on The View there should be a prominent disclaimer that her opinions are solely that, opinions. The name of the show should be changed to The Unfounded Opinion.
There is a Dr. Winer on the radio every Sat. morning and people call in with questions. He is a chiropractor and agrees that vaccinations of children do more harm than good. He makes a lot of sense. If kids aren’t allowed in school if not vaccinated (untrue-but most people belive this) then they don’t have much faith in the vaccinationed kids to be protected from the kids that haven’t been vaccinated. Why don’t you check this guy out?
Yeah, he sounds like an idiot. How often to chiros deal with or get trained in vaccines? Exactly. It’s not that they “don’t have much faith in the vaccinated kids to be protected”, it’s just that you are screwing with the numbers game of herd immunity. Just wait until Polio hits again.
Now now, she’ll be just as serious and credible as any other member of that hen party.