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Oprah Basically Killing Everyone Woman And Child In America

7:36AM Pareene | She is very powerful, and so she will probably destroy Newsweek for reporting this, but: Oprah’s popular show, when it is not about giving you free things, is about promoting stupid and often dangerous quackery and pseudoscience. More »

7:10AM Kyle Buchanan | BREAKING HEADLINE NEWS over the wires from Extra! We’ll cede them the floor: “An outspoken activist for autism awareness, Jenny McCarthy speaks out about whether [Sarah] Palin, who also has a child with special needs, can make a difference in Washington. McCarthy responds, ‘You know, I don’t know.’” MUST CREDIT EXTRA! [Extra] More »

10:15AM Kyle Buchanan | About Time: It was only a matter of time before the week’s two big autism stories collided, but let’s thank Access Hollywood for hastening things along. Billy Bush caught up with “cleavage and veggies” advocate Jenny McCarthy to get her comments on Denis Leary’s assertion that autistic kids are stupid and lazy, and she described a scene that sounded as though it had come straight out of a Sarah Palin rally. “Whoo! First of all, let me tell you, the autism community has received probably 10,000 emails [saying] ‘Go kill him!’ ‘Go yell at him,’” she told Bush. “[But] it’s so hard to even get up enough juice in me or energy in me to even try to fight someone that is obviously stupid.” Really? Jenny, consider your guest-blogging privileges at Defamer revoked. [Us] More »

Jenny McCarthy: ‘A Diet Of Cleavage And Veggies Cured My Son Of Autism!’

10:13AM Seth | While Rescue Me star and Miss Worcester second runner-up Dennis Leary may have rankled some with his book’s assessment of autism sufferers as being “dumb-arse kids,” “junior morons,” and “dumb, lazy, or both” (”Totally out of my book’s contest!” rebutted Leary), one true believer in the disorder—an outspoken activist, in fact—is Jenny McCarthy. Where she veers from her fellow crusaders is in her theory on its cause: She blames the Measles, Mumps, and Rubella vaccination drained the life out of her young son Evan, and gave him autism. Now she’s raising even more eyebrows by claiming on the cover of the current Us Weekly that she “saved [her] son” through “a strict no wheat-and-dairy-free diet.” From usmagazine.com: More »

Dr. Denis Leary Diagnoses Autistic Kids as ‘Stupid, Lazy’

1:30AM STV | Let’s face it: As well-intentioned celebrity spats go, Jenny McCarthy vs. Amanda Peet was a total disappointment in its attempt to bring awareness to the cause and treatment of autism. What it needed was less born-again book-tour proselytizing and more substantive debate about nature, nurture and science itself. In other words, it needed the radical authority of a medical professional like Denis Leary, who, in his own new book, tastefully settles the problem of autism once and for all: More »