Post by nicole on May 14, 2009 22:09:20 GMT -5
From Respectful Insolence, by ORAC:
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I realize that I've been mighty hard on Jenny McCarthy these last several months. I've made fun of her for her idiocy, her arrogance of ignorance, and her antivaccination lunacy, not to mention her utter ignorance of science, and, yes, I've been rather vicious at times. However, she richly deserved it. Indeed, I argue that in fact my reaction was actually mild in comparison to the sheer lunacy that she regularly spews and the threat to public health her ignorant antivaccinationist activism represents.
But it's Friday, and that means it's fun day. That means it's time for an excursion into camp woo, and one area of woo that I've meant to look into for a while is the woo that apparently formed McCarthy's views of science. You see, before she discovered antivaccinationism last year, there was a gentler Jenny, a less angry Jenny, a Jenny who was into gentle, New Age woo, rather than into toxic, ranting antivaccinationism in which she followed a vision of a greater world, where special children with special powers would bring about a golden age. Wait, you say. What are you talking about? Surely you remember Indigo Children, don't you? You don't? Well, perhaps you should. After all, if you do, you might come to realize, as I have, that perhaps we should all be nice to Jenny. After all, she means well, and she is a special woman. She has a special son, a son who is a "crystal child."
This woo, it is good.
Of course if you go looking for Jenny McCarthy's IndigoMoms.com website, you won't find it. It disappeared around July 3, 2007 as demonstrated by The Wayback Machine. After all, that was about the time that Jenny McCarthy's autism woo book was about to be released, and it just wouldn't do to have a website up that shows just what a flake Jenny was. Oh, no, she was about to be reborn as the "warrior mom" and crusader for "safe vaccines." However, also due to the glory of the Wayback Machine, you can still see a lot of it right here, which was last updated on November 12, 2006. It begins thusly:
But it's Friday, and that means it's fun day. That means it's time for an excursion into camp woo, and one area of woo that I've meant to look into for a while is the woo that apparently formed McCarthy's views of science. You see, before she discovered antivaccinationism last year, there was a gentler Jenny, a less angry Jenny, a Jenny who was into gentle, New Age woo, rather than into toxic, ranting antivaccinationism in which she followed a vision of a greater world, where special children with special powers would bring about a golden age. Wait, you say. What are you talking about? Surely you remember Indigo Children, don't you? You don't? Well, perhaps you should. After all, if you do, you might come to realize, as I have, that perhaps we should all be nice to Jenny. After all, she means well, and she is a special woman. She has a special son, a son who is a "crystal child."
This woo, it is good.
Of course if you go looking for Jenny McCarthy's IndigoMoms.com website, you won't find it. It disappeared around July 3, 2007 as demonstrated by The Wayback Machine. After all, that was about the time that Jenny McCarthy's autism woo book was about to be released, and it just wouldn't do to have a website up that shows just what a flake Jenny was. Oh, no, she was about to be reborn as the "warrior mom" and crusader for "safe vaccines." However, also due to the glory of the Wayback Machine, you can still see a lot of it right here, which was last updated on November 12, 2006. It begins thusly:
Continue reading here
............ scienceblogs.com/insolence/2008/06/your_friday_dose_of_woo_generation_woo.php
