Question about Jenny McCarthy

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To PP, how typical, immediately spurting out insults and launching an assault on those of us who dare to question. Vaccines are not without risk. Risks can be reduced. That's a fact. I'm sorry if you've made bad choices in your life and are as a result resentful.

infinitesimal risks... please show me your "facts." Again there is a mountain of research that shows you are wrong. I didn't make bad choices; I got my kids vaccinated.

If the risks are so minimal, then why does this exist:

http://www.hrsa.gov/vaccinecompensation/index.html

Why have millions of dollars been paid to families with vaccine injured kids? Please, there is NOTHING wrong with having a dialogue to improve vaccine safety.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To PP, how typical, immediately spurting out insults and launching an assault on those of us who dare to question. Vaccines are not without risk. Risks can be reduced. That's a fact. I'm sorry if you've made bad choices in your life and are as a result resentful.

infinitesimal risks... please show me your "facts." Again there is a mountain of research that shows you are wrong. I didn't make bad choices; I got my kids vaccinated.

If the risks are so minimal, then why does this exist:

http://www.hrsa.gov/vaccinecompensation/index.html

Why have millions of dollars been paid to families with vaccine injured kids? Please, there is NOTHING wrong with having a dialogue to improve vaccine safety.

We live in a uber-litigoius society, duh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She's not even newsworthy anymore. Totally D list. Why are you posting about her?

OP here. I posted this because it was something I've never understood, and I was reminded of that seeing her name pop up on the list of celebs people can't stand.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To PP, how typical, immediately spurting out insults and launching an assault on those of us who dare to question. Vaccines are not without risk. Risks can be reduced. That's a fact. I'm sorry if you've made bad choices in your life and are as a result resentful.

infinitesimal risks... please show me your "facts." Again there is a mountain of research that shows you are wrong. I didn't make bad choices; I got my kids vaccinated.

If the risks are so minimal, then why does this exist:

http://www.hrsa.gov/vaccinecompensation/index.html

Why have millions of dollars been paid to families with vaccine injured kids? Please, there is NOTHING wrong with having a dialogue to improve vaccine safety.

There are risks, but they are minimal. Let's look at the statistics from HRSA (http://www.hrsa.gov/vaccinecompensation/vicpmonthlyoctober15.pdf), since you seem okay with that as a resource. From 2006 to 2014, 2.5 billion doses of vaccines covered by the fund were administered, which gave rise to 3,255 claims, 2,012 of which were paid. For the sake of argument, let's leave aside that you don't actually have to prove that the condition/injury was the result of the vaccine and assume they all were). That means that approximately 0.00013% of vaccinations administered led to claims of vaccine-related injury, and only 0.00008% of vaccinations resulted in claim that was sufficiently plausible to be compensated. I hope we can agree that those are extremely low odds of injury.

Let's dig into it further and look at, for instance, polio. Between 2006 and 2014, over 175 million doses of the polio vaccine, either alone or combined with other vaccines, were administered in the United States. During that same period, 96 claims of potential vaccine-related injury (fatal and non-fatal, compensated and dismissed/uncompensated) were filed, an average of 10.6 per year. By contrast, let's look at the incidence of polio in 1951-1954, before the polio vaccine was introduced in the U.S. in 1955. During those years, on average 16,316 cases of paralytic polio were reported, and an average of 1,879 people died every year from polio (http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00056803.htm). Keep further in mind that the U.S. population has nearly doubled since the early 1950s, and it makes the comparison even more extreme. Do you really want to go back to that? Do you really want to see 3,600 people (stat adjusted for current U.S. population) die of polio every year to avoid 10.6 allegations of fatal or non-fatal vaccine injury (many of which are found to have no validity)?

[Anonymous]

Why does she keep saying her son is cured? He seems VERY awkward, in a way that could be explained by being on the spectrum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To PP, how typical, immediately spurting out insults and launching an assault on those of us who dare to question. Vaccines are not without risk. Risks can be reduced. That's a fact. I'm sorry if you've made bad choices in your life and are as a result resentful.

infinitesimal risks... please show me your "facts." Again there is a mountain of research that shows you are wrong. I didn't make bad choices; I got my kids vaccinated.

If the risks are so minimal, then why does this exist:

http://www.hrsa.gov/vaccinecompensation/index.html

Why have millions of dollars been paid to families with vaccine injured kids? Please, there is NOTHING wrong with having a dialogue to improve vaccine safety.

There are risks, but they are minimal. Let's look at the statistics from HRSA (http://www.hrsa.gov/vaccinecompensation/vicpmonthlyoctober15.pdf), since you seem okay with that as a resource. From 2006 to 2014, 2.5 billion doses of vaccines covered by the fund were administered, which gave rise to 3,255 claims, 2,012 of which were paid. For the sake of argument, let's leave aside that you don't actually have to prove that the condition/injury was the result of the vaccine and assume they all were). That means that approximately 0.00013% of vaccinations administered led to claims of vaccine-related injury, and only 0.00008% of vaccinations resulted in claim that was sufficiently plausible to be compensated. I hope we can agree that those are extremely low odds of injury.

Let's dig into it further and look at, for instance, polio. Between 2006 and 2014, over 175 million doses of the polio vaccine, either alone or combined with other vaccines, were administered in the United States. During that same period, 96 claims of potential vaccine-related injury (fatal and non-fatal, compensated and dismissed/uncompensated) were filed, an average of 10.6 per year. By contrast, let's look at the incidence of polio in 1951-1954, before the polio vaccine was introduced in the U.S. in 1955. During those years, on average 16,316 cases of paralytic polio were reported, and an average of 1,879 people died every year from polio (http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00056803.htm). Keep further in mind that the U.S. population has nearly doubled since the early 1950s, and it makes the comparison even more extreme. Do you really want to go back to that? Do you really want to see 3,600 people (stat adjusted for current U.S. population) die of polio every year to avoid 10.6 allegations of fatal or non-fatal vaccine injury (many of which are found to have no validity)?

And one last point. If we're going to start talking about things that need to be safer, I hope you're even more up in arms about antibiotics than you are about vaccines. The average person has a 1-2% chance of developing an antibiotic allergy at some point in their life (and it can come on unexpectedly even if you've never had a reaction before), including anaphylaxis. That's dramatically higher than the 0.00008% rate of verified potential vaccine-related injury. Let's keep the risks in perspective.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why does she keep saying her son is cured? He seems VERY awkward, in a way that could be explained by being on the spectrum.

He NEVER had autism. He has Landau-Kleffner syndrome (LKS), which is a rare, childhood neurological disorder characterized by the sudden or gradual development of aphasia (the inability to understand or express language).
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/landaukleffnersyndrome/landaukleffnersyndrome.htm

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why does she keep saying her son is cured? He seems VERY awkward, in a way that could be explained by being on the spectrum.

He NEVER had autism. He has Landau-Kleffner syndrome (LKS), which is a rare, childhood neurological disorder characterized by the sudden or gradual development of aphasia (the inability to understand or express language).
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/landaukleffnersyndrome/landaukleffnersyndrome.htm

It doesn't seem like he's cured from that. Why would so many professionals treat him for autism if that's not what he has? I'm not challenging you in asking that, just know nothing about this and don't understand. I mean, would a podiatrist treat you for a corn you don't have? No. They'd be like "Um, you don't have a corn, you have some other problem that requires a different type of doctor."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To PP, how typical, immediately spurting out insults and launching an assault on those of us who dare to question. Vaccines are not without risk. Risks can be reduced. That's a fact. I'm sorry if you've made bad choices in your life and are as a result resentful.

infinitesimal risks... please show me your "facts." Again there is a mountain of research that shows you are wrong. I didn't make bad choices; I got my kids vaccinated.

If the risks are so minimal, then why does this exist:

http://www.hrsa.gov/vaccinecompensation/index.html

Why have millions of dollars been paid to families with vaccine injured kids? Please, there is NOTHING wrong with having a dialogue to improve vaccine safety.

There are risks, but they are minimal. Let's look at the statistics from HRSA (http://www.hrsa.gov/vaccinecompensation/vicpmonthlyoctober15.pdf), since you seem okay with that as a resource. From 2006 to 2014, 2.5 billion doses of vaccines covered by the fund were administered, which gave rise to 3,255 claims, 2,012 of which were paid. For the sake of argument, let's leave aside that you don't actually have to prove that the condition/injury was the result of the vaccine and assume they all were). That means that approximately 0.00013% of vaccinations administered led to claims of vaccine-related injury, and only 0.00008% of vaccinations resulted in claim that was sufficiently plausible to be compensated. I hope we can agree that those are extremely low odds of injury.

Let's dig into it further and look at, for instance, polio. Between 2006 and 2014, over 175 million doses of the polio vaccine, either alone or combined with other vaccines, were administered in the United States. During that same period, 96 claims of potential vaccine-related injury (fatal and non-fatal, compensated and dismissed/uncompensated) were filed, an average of 10.6 per year. By contrast, let's look at the incidence of polio in 1951-1954, before the polio vaccine was introduced in the U.S. in 1955. During those years, on average 16,316 cases of paralytic polio were reported, and an average of 1,879 people died every year from polio (http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00056803.htm). Keep further in mind that the U.S. population has nearly doubled since the early 1950s, and it makes the comparison even more extreme. Do you really want to go back to that? Do you really want to see 3,600 people (stat adjusted for current U.S. population) die of polio every year to avoid 10.6 allegations of fatal or non-fatal vaccine injury (many of which are found to have no validity)?

And one last point. If we're going to start talking about things that need to be safer, I hope you're even more up in arms about antibiotics than you are about vaccines. The average person has a 1-2% chance of developing an antibiotic allergy at some point in their life (and it can come on unexpectedly even if you've never had a reaction before), including anaphylaxis. That's dramatically higher than the 0.00008% rate of verified potential vaccine-related injury. Let's keep the risks in perspective.

I love you. And to the crazy PP before who is concerned about "risks": Please let professionals such as the CDC and WHO, and more who peer review and publish their data guide you on the appropriate course. That is to vaccinate your children on schedule.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why does she keep saying her son is cured? He seems VERY awkward, in a way that could be explained by being on the spectrum.

He NEVER had autism. He has Landau-Kleffner syndrome (LKS), which is a rare, childhood neurological disorder characterized by the sudden or gradual development of aphasia (the inability to understand or express language).
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/landaukleffnersyndrome/landaukleffnersyndrome.htm

It doesn't seem like he's cured from that. Why would so many professionals treat him for autism if that's not what he has? I'm not challenging you in asking that, just know nothing about this and don't understand. I mean, would a podiatrist treat you for a corn you don't have? No. They'd be like "Um, you don't have a corn, you have some other problem that requires a different type of doctor."

Well, you're never cured from LKS or autism. LKS is very rare and looks a lot like autism b/c of the loss of language. He will most likely have learning disabilities that will be life long and I assume he will be doing speech therapy as well.

However, the "treatments" that Jenny McCarthy has inflicted on her son didn't come from doctors--more like "Dr. Google," hyperbaric chamber sessions and Chelation therapy where a chemical is injected into the bloodstream to remove heavy metals and/or minerals from the body.

Chelation therapy is dangerous and has caused the deaths of some kids with ASD:
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5508a3.htm

[Anonymous]

These kids have LKS:

Cameron:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncNWq9RCYIE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwg8eoSl6XM

Richie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-rw-YVoChw

Alex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEvoObtyU-A

McCarthy should come clean about her mistaken assumptions that vaccines caused the seizures and loss of language in her son. It was actually a form of epilepsy. And stop using the words "recovered."

But she's a liar and made a ton of money off her books and appearances, so doubtful.