Vaccinate Your Kids? Jim Carrey Joins The Debate
April 22nd, 2009
Jim Carrey has spoken about the benefits and risks of vaccinating your children in a new post on The Huffington Post. Carrey, who with girlfriend Jenny McCarthy has an autism-related organisation called Generation Rescue, says current research is far from conclusive, but warns, “One thing is certain. We don’t know enough to announce that all vaccines are safe!”.
Carrey’s full column appears on The Huffington Post here. The opening excerpt reads:
“Recently, I was amazed to hear a commentary by CNN’s Campbell Brown on the controversial vaccine issue. After a ruling by the ‘special vaccine court’ saying the Measles, Mumps, Rubella shot wasn’t found to be responsible for the plaintiffs’ autism, she and others in the media began making assertions that the judgment was in, and vaccines had been proven safe. No one would be more relieved than Jenny and I if that were true.
“But with all due respect to Ms. Brown, a ruling against causation in three cases out of more than 5000 hardly proves that other children won’t be adversely affected by the MMR, let alone that all vaccines are safe. This is a huge leap of logic by anyone’s standards. Not everyone gets cancer from smoking, but cigarettes do cause cancer. After 100 years and many rulings in favor of the tobacco companies, we finally figured that out.”
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