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I wonder if this will persude Jenny McCarthy and co. (holding breath)

• hugh3 16y ago
  The point of stuff like this isn't to convince Jenny McCarthy, it's to convince fair-minded yet ignorant parents who might have heard Jenny McCarthy talking on Oprah and lack any other information. (I don't know whether Jenny McCarthy has ever talked on Oprah, but she must be talking somewhere.)
• sabat 16y ago
  You're going to turn blue waiting for that. In their world, facts != 'truth'.
• ewjordan 16y ago
  Based on the limited set of reactions I've seen so far (for instance, http://www.autismweb.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=23104 http://www.autismweb.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=23104)? No. This won't change a damn thing. When you're that committed to a cause, every scientific result that comes out against your cause is easy to dismiss as either wrong, a deliberate lie, incomplete, not 100% proof, etc. This is especially troublesome in areas where the True Believers invert the burden of proof: rather than asking for proof that vaccines cause autism, they'd only be satisfied with proof that they don't, which is a much more difficult task (and don't get me wrong - I have no doubt whatsoever that even if rock solid proof was offered, they'd still reject it outright).
• mattmaroon 16y ago
  It wasn't logical, scientific reasoning that brought them to that conclusion in the first place, so why would it change their minds?
• CamperBob 16y ago
  My understanding is that McCarthy has actually recanted. Very, very quietly.