A good day for science (aka Jenny McCarthy is still crazy)

Maybe you've heard that vaccines cause autism in children. Super smart people, like Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carry, have gone on, and on, and on about how they do. This is all based on a 1998 paper by Andrew Wakefield in Lancet (which has been retracted). Well, that was all B.S. According to a new report in the medical journal BMJ, the 1998 study was based on doctored information. That's bad for McCarthy and her bunch. 


Still this probably won't stop the anti-vaccine people from claiming that vaccines cause autism. It does add more ammo to the pro-vaccination side's war to properly inform the public about what vaccines actually do (hint: they prevent deadly diseases). Here's a fun video of Penn and Teller (the bastions of public health knowledge that they are) talking about the benefits of vaccination (fyi, they use bad words).