Friday, July 26, 2013

What you need to know about Jenny McCarthy, autism and the Press


Many of you know that I have long personal experience with autism in my family and my business.  Here's my reaction to the press "kerfuffle" about Jenny McCarthy joining The View.  Btw, I don't agree with everything Jenny says, but I do think she has been courageous in shining a light on the issue of autism and vaccines.

Despite the fact that the press has decided it’s out of fashion right now to think that vaccines are related to autism:

  • My son developed autism not long after his vaccines, and was later confirmed to have mercury toxicity.  He got a lot better when we got mercury out of his body.
  • As president of a vitamin company for kids with autism, I talked to literally hundreds of other moms who had the same experience.
  • There are many (70) scientific studies that do support the link between autism and vaccines, contrary to the consensus in the popular press, which is fad-driven and doesn’t know or care much about science.  There is a HUGE investment in the medical status quo to not allowing people to know this.
  • There is no healthy amount of mercury to put into a human body.
  • Autism is now 1 in 50 children.  We are losing our next generation to it.
  • The public seems to be asleep to this fact.  Some of us wonder, what will it take to wake people up?
  • Jenny is not alone, and we (the thousands of moms and dads who have seen the connection between autism and vaccines with our own eyes) have her back.
  • The more press attention this issue gets, the more the truth will come out.  We say, bring it on!