autism
Tetris Cures PTSD, and Other Things Scientists Claim Are True
Hamilton Nolan · 11/11/10 03:07PMJenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey End 5-year Relationship Via Twitter
Adrian Chen · 04/06/10 08:06PMOnly Some Conspiracy Theories Welcome at Huffington Post
Pareene · 03/09/10 05:46PMBad News for Vaccine Conspiracists is Good News for Everyone Else
Pareene · 01/29/10 05:11PMThe Huffington Post reports that Bill Gates pledged $10 billion for vaccine research. The HuffPo's utterly insane vaccine conspiracy theorizing commenters are unhappy! Meanwhile, the doctor who invented the "vaccines cause autism" lie has (finally!) been reprimanded by the UK's General Medical Council, and he may yet have his medical license revoked. Arianna's Funtime Link Party Tribune and Hothouse of Nonsense has not yet weighed in, though we can't wait to hear what Ace Ventura has to say.
Study: White People Have More Autism
Adrian Chen · 01/06/10 09:05PMJohn Travolta Is a Scientologist 'Now and Forever'
John Cook · 07/29/09 03:00PMJohn Travolta, Defying Scientology, Acknowledged Son's Autism
John Cook · 06/11/09 09:08AMJim Carrey Blogs a Blog About Vaccines
Pareene · 04/22/09 11:48AMAutism, the Disease of the Internet Era
Owen Thomas · 01/12/09 03:39PMJett Travolta's Fishy Cause Of Death
Ryan Tate · 01/06/09 04:12AMTravolta Nanny Mystery Deepens
Owen Thomas · 01/03/09 11:42PMTravolta's Rumored Gay Lover Discovered Dead Son
Owen Thomas · 01/03/09 04:27PMDenis Leary Slams 'Ridiculous' Autism Fakers
Ryan Tate · 11/19/08 03:39AMSurprisingly, everyone appears to have missed the subtle nuance in a chapter of comedian Denis Leary's book entitled "Autism, Schmautism." Go figure. Controversy arose after the Post excerpted a paragraph from Leary's Why We All Suck reading, in part, "I don't give a [bleep] what these crackerjack whack jobs tell you - yer kid is NOT autistic." Last night Leary appeared on the Daily Show to explain that he was quoted out of context, and in reality was taking a sophisticated stand on the scientific mystery of surging autism cases:
Kyle Buchanan · 10/17/08 07:15PM
About Time: It was only a matter of time before the week's two big autism stories collided, but let's thank Access Hollywood for hastening things along. Billy Bush caught up with "cleavage and veggies" advocate Jenny McCarthy to get her comments on Denis Leary's assertion that autistic kids are stupid and lazy, and she described a scene that sounded as though it had come straight out of a Sarah Palin rally. "Whoo! First of all, let me tell you, the autism community has received probably 10,000 emails [saying] 'Go kill him!' 'Go yell at him,'" she told Bush. "[But] it’s so hard to even get up enough juice in me or energy in me to even try to fight someone that is obviously stupid." Really? Jenny, consider your guest-blogging privileges at Defamer revoked. [Us]
Jenny McCarthy: 'A Diet Of Cleavage And Veggies Cured My Son Of Autism!'
Seth Abramovitch · 10/16/08 07:13PMWhile Rescue Me star and Miss Worcester second runner-up Denis Leary may have rankled some with his book's assessment of autism sufferers as being "dumb-ass kids," "junior morons," and "dumb, lazy, or both" ("Totally out of my book's context!" rebutted Leary), one true believer in the disorder—an outspoken activist, in fact—is Jenny McCarthy. Where she veers from her fellow crusaders is in her theory on its cause: She blames the Measles, Mumps, and Rubella vaccination of draining the life out of her young son Evan, and giving him autism. Now she's raising even more eyebrows by claiming on the cover of the current Us Weekly that she "saved [her] son" through "a strict no wheat-and-dairy-free diet." From usmagazine.com:
Kyle Buchanan · 10/16/08 06:35PM
Denis Leary Denies Autism Too
Ryan Tate · 10/15/08 07:25AMFor some reason Denis Leary, who is actually an accomplished TV and movie star and halfway-decent comedian, has joined with reliable moron and talk-radio screamer Michael Savage and misguided trashy-TV host Jenny McCarthy in spreading scientifically-dubious pap about autism. The charitable explanation is that Leary was rushing to meet the deadline for his book, Why We Suck, or, as all-too-many comedians do, filling it with unfiltered, subliterate transcriptions of experimental new stand-up comedy material when he wrote, "there is a huge boom in autism... because inattentive mothers and competitive dads want an explanation for why their dumb-ass kids can't compete academically." The Autism Society is obviously thrilled. More, via Page Six:
Jenny McCarthy Calls "Bullshit" On Your "Medical Science"
Pareene · 04/03/08 10:41AMLarry King had noted medical expert/softcore video star Jenny McCarthy on the program last night to talk about AUTISM. Specifically, how it's caused by VACCINATING YOUR CHILDREN. This is patent conspiratorial nonsense, but it's very popular conspiratorial nonsense. Of course, in a battle between concerned, credulous parents and medical experts, the media will generally frame it as, say, Debate Rages Anew on Vaccine-Autism Link. Faced with a panel of three trained pediatricians, Ms. McCarthy shouted "BULLSHIT" twice. Then Larry put it to an internet poll. Clip after the jump!