{"id":11738,"date":"2013-07-16T15:22:18","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T19:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=11738"},"modified":"2013-07-16T15:22:18","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T19:22:18","slug":"why-jenny-mccarthys-new-tv-gig-is-so-unsettling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=11738","title":{"rendered":"Why Jenny McCarthy's New TV Gig is So Unsettling"},"content":{"rendered":"

https://disneycruisinggroup.com/planning/ Best as I can tell, most of the internet has denounced ABC’s decision<\/a> to hire Jenny McCarthy as a cohost of The View<\/a>, a popular daytime talk show on American television. The uproar, in case you just returned from a week-long, off-the-grid monastic retreat, owes to McCarthy’s role<\/a> as a prominent spokesperson for the anti-vaccine movement. \u00a0As Salon<\/em> laments<\/a>,<\/p>\n

She devotes a great deal of energy to promoting the untrue belief that vaccines lead to autism, and it seems possible that she now views her career as a television personality and prominent celebrity as a means of carrying out her mission to spread what she believes is the truth about autism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

https://growthjourneytherapy.com/contact/ Of course, what she believes about autism and vaccines is not supported<\/a> by medical evidence. Combine McCarthy’s unstinting anti-vaccine advocacy with her telegenic personality and you get, as numerous commentators have noted, \u00a0a danger to public health. Michael Specter at The\u00a0New Yorker<\/em> says<\/a> ABC executives “should be ashamed of themselves for offering McCarthy a regular platform on which she can peddle denialism and fear to the parents of young children who may have legitimate questions about vaccine safety.”<\/p>\n

https://andiroberts.com/emotional-intelligence/ This is the prevailing reaction that I have read, which I agree with. But an interesting counter view is offered<\/a> by a Guardian<\/em> writer:<\/p>\n

Purchase Valium Online There\u2019s an argument to be made that a good way to expose the plain wrongness of McCarthy\u2019s dangerous beliefs to the audience that most needs to hear it is to televise her on weekday mornings arguing about it with Whoopi Goldberg and, yes, Barbara Walters. The View could in fact shine a much-needed corrective light on the ignorance that McCarthy has otherwise been able to peddle unrebutted in a book and in appearances on\u00a0less combative<\/a>\u00a0TV shows.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Purchase Tramadol Without Prescription This has merit, but I think Phil Plait makes a more compelling argument in Slate<\/em> when he\u00a0writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Clonazepam Purchase Online even if she doesn\u2019t talk about any of her nonsensical health ideas on the show, the very fact that she now has this co-host position gives her a tacit credibility to the viewer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Buy Lorazepam Online Without Prescription That alone is a dangerous message to send.<\/p>\n

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Best as I can tell, most of the internet has denounced ABC’s decision to hire Jenny McCarthy as a cohost of The View, a popular daytime talk show on American television. The uproar, in case you just returned from a week-long, off-the-grid monastic retreat, owes to McCarthy’s role as a prominent spokesperson for the anti-vaccine… Order Valium Without Prescription Continue Reading…<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2467,2961,2967,3041],"tags":[696,718,1228,1581,1734],"class_list":["post-11738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-vaccine-movement","category-science","category-select","category-vaccinations","tag-anti-vaccine-movement","tag-autism","tag-jenny-mccarthy","tag-science","tag-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}