Has anyone ever considered her a credible person?

Did anybody even really remember her after, oh, 1997?

Is she a person of standing?

Is she noteworthy in any way?

So when she stands up and says "vaccines gave my baby autism" why do we give her more credit than Anne Heche getting on Larry King and saying she's a half-alien named Celestia?

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0109/06/lkl.00.html

...I'm gonna go with "because people are scared to death of autism and they don't trust the medical establishment."

So we're presented with two choices:

1) Restore the peoples' trust in the FDA (after all, they did catch thalidomide, which Europe didn't)

or

2) Make fun of anyone who doesn't and call them doodyheads.

"Make fun of anyone who doesn't and call them doodyheads" is the chosen path for all rebellion. They did it to Martin Luther King. Shit, they did it to Martin Luther. As a result, you end up drawing a comparison between Jenny McCarthy and Martin Luther.

Does anyone really think Jenny McCarthy killed all those kids?

Really?

I think it's just an easy way to not have to think about it. The more easily you can dismiss something that strikes you as irrational, the more easily you can pretend to be wholly rational yourself.