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HuffPo: Crazy About Health

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Dark_Falcon7/29/2009 8:13:40 pm PDT

And Huffington has given a platform to Jim Carrey. From the article:

As if the circus tent couldn’t get any bigger, this April, the site posted a piece, “The Judgment on Vaccines Is In???” by actor and comedian Jim Carrey. In addition to the usual anti-vaccine platitudes — blaming doctors for being in bed with drug companies; attacking people instead of data — Carrey offered arguments apparently composed by Ace Ventura:

“I’ve also heard it said that no evidence of a link between vaccines and autism has ever been found. That statement is only true for the CDC, the AAP and the vaccine makers who’ve been ignoring mountains of scientific information and testimony. There’s no evidence of the Lincoln Memorial if you look the other way and refuse to turn around. But if you care to look, it’s really quite impressive.”

While we might expect loose analogies and logic from a celebrity blogger, we might also expect them to take a little care with the facts. Carrey’s piece contains multiple mistakes. He writes, for example, that vaccines contain “ether, and anti-freeze.” They don’t. Still, the post went up and generated thousands of comments, including many that pointed out Carrey’s errors. Huffington states that the site’s “policy calls for factual errors in blog posts to be corrected by the blogger within 24 hours of the error being pointed.” Carrey’s post appeared on April 22 and still hasn’t been corrected.

So now Ariana is in bed with anti-vaxers. I hope she has soaps that can wash the blood off her hands.