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1. April 28, 2011 12:15 PM

   Critics Slam PBS, NYT Autism Reports

   Mnookin: “A reckless and irresponsible coda to Robert MacNeil’s career”

   By Curtis Brainard

   A PBS Newshour series about autism that drew former host Robert MacNeil back to the show for the first time in sixteen years is also drawing heavy criticism. Parts of the six-part “Autism Now” series, which launched on April 18, revive the widely refuted theory that vaccines cause the developmental disorder, which leads to the impairment of social and communications...

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2. March 22, 2012 02:42 AM

   Gawker Misreads the WSJ on Vaccines and Immunity (UPDATED)

   By Ryan Chittum

   Gawker totally misreads a Wall Street Journal story on numbskulls who don't vaccinate their kids, writing that it means "Oregonian Religious Nuts Are Going to Give Us All Measles." There is a certain percentage of the population that objects to giving their kids vaccinations, because of stuff like Jesus, some book, Jenny McCarthy, whatever. You know, crazy people. Fine, in...

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3. October 29, 2012 06:50 AM

   Jenny McCarthy as a Sun-Times columnist?

   Science writers are skeptical, though McCarthy won't promote a fake link between vaccines and autism there

   By Jennifer Vanasco

   In her column, Minority Reports, Jennifer Vanasco analyzes how the mainstream media covers social minorities. The Chicago Sun-Times created controversy this month by hiring Jenny McCarthy—an actress-model, author, and activist who promotes the discredited idea that vaccines cause autism—to blog online five days a week and write a weekly print advice column about sex, love, dating, and parenting. (The USA...

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