Jenny McCarthy is an idiot
Posted
October 1, 2008 at
5:23 pm by
Jessica
Since we look to Hollywood to shape our political views, why not our medical ones as well? Actresses Jenny McCarthy and Amanda Peet are having a bit of a spat over the subject of vaccinations. See, McCarthy, who thinks showing off your surgically enhanced tits makes you an expert in human anatomy, has been very vocal about the MMR vaccine being the cause of her son’s autism — a link that has not been scientifically proven — while Peet is champion of vaccinations, calling anti-vac parents “parasites” in a recent interview. But what really takes the cake is that McCarthy claims to know not only caused her son Evan’s autism, but says she has also found a “cure” for the disease as well. McCarthy has been giving her son vitamin B-12 shots, as well as keeping him on a strict diet, methods she says helped him “recover”. When asked about the science behind all these notions, she stated, “My science is Evan, and he’s at home. That’s my science.” To quote her famous live-in boyfriend, “Well, alrighty then!!”
McCarthy has been making the TV rounds for a while now, on such think tank shows like Larry King (who loves to give publicity to crackpot psychics) and Oprah Winfrey (recently known for her endorsement of the giant hoax The Secret) — basically anywhere that will let her share her “wisdom” unchallenged. Even though the general consensus amongst medical scientists around the world are that such claims remain unproven and possibly dangerous and nothing more than gossip/rumor, some parents look up to the protruding boobs of Jenny McCarthy and take in the information as if they were listening to somebody who actually knew what they were talking about and had some kind of medical or clinical expertise to back it up.
Honestly, if supplements were the cure for Autism, don’t you think that somebody other than Jenny McCarthy would have figured that out? Don’t you think that scientists and doctors would have latched onto such “cures” and capitalized on it?
Many forms of autism are still being diagnosed rather subjectively, so certain behaviors can foster such a diagnosis which can lead to nothing more than a label. A child labeled with austim might not truly have autism to begin with, but his/her behaviors cannot be explained under any other label. I know this firsthand. My son was diagnosed with Aspergers a year and half ago which is part of the autism spectrum, and just as soon as one of the top pediatric neurologists gave him the diagnosis, a year later, it was taken away. Turns out, he was given that diagnosis because they didn’t know how to label his developmental delays and wanted to give us a path to receive services. This neurologist, at a well known University, gave him an IQ test and said, “Well there you have it. His brain is over-developing in the areas of processing information and analyzing subjects and as a result, his emotional and physical development is lagging behind. Here’s a book. You’ll need this in order to navigate a school system that has very little to offer gifted children. Good luck… oh, and his development? Don’t worry about that. He’ll catch up. No need to schedule a follow up.”
Yes, I realize this is anecdotal, but no more so than the “expert” Playmate… but, my son really loves chocolate and eats more than he should. If I follow McCarthy’s logic, perhaps it’s chocolate that “cured” him! Await my appearance on Oprah next month.
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31. TheYoungMother
October 2, 2008 @ 4:25 pm
Marie:
I agree with you 100%. Prescott was comparing Religion to a wheat free diet lol. I mean come on, If anyone thinks that ALL Doctors are there to help, and that the ALL the Medical companies are there to keep people healthy are just living in a box. It has nothing to do with conspiracy theories lol. It has do with the facts. The more people sick, the more money doctors make. Plain and simple.
32. TheYoungMother
October 2, 2008 @ 4:28 pm
Jessica, you do realize that all herbal supplements have that written on there right? lol.
33. Chag
October 2, 2008 @ 8:51 pm
What is not mentioned in this article and lots of other press regarding Jenny McCarthy and her son is that he received intensive ABA therapy as well. Headlines scream, “The Diet That Cured My Son,” but that was simply not all that was in play here. The simple fact is that most people cannot afford the ABA therapy that contributed to her son’s improvement. They can, however, afford the special diets and supplements. And that’s what gets the press.
My son has autism. We have had him on the gf/cf diet for six months. And while we did not see the MIRACULOUS RECOVERY others claim while on the diet, out son’s concentration improved greatly and his skin rashes cleared up almost immediately.
We have recently begun giving our son supplements. Through blood tests, we discovered that he was severely deficient in a certain mineral. We started giving him this mineral a month ago. He has gone from a child who rarely spoke to one that now says two to three words a day. He is also doing much, much better at school/therapy. Now this could all be one big coincidence, but we don’t think so.
Some children with autism have immunological and gastrointestinal problems. I feel that the special diets and supplements help these children become more “healthy” and that makes any therapies the child is receiving more beneficial and worthwhile.
So do I think a gf/cf diet and supplements “cure” Autism? No. But I do believe they make the child healthier which, in turn, makes any therapies more valuable.
34. TheYoungMother
October 2, 2008 @ 9:26 pm
Thank you for bringing this up. I’m glad to hear a parent who is actually going through this, be able to give honest input. Its nice to hear that I’m not the only “crazy” parent for believing there may be other remedies to help the situtaion. It boggles me that after hearing stories like this people are still ignorant enough to judge parents for loooking into other options to help their children. Good For you.
35. GrandmafrmKs.
October 3, 2008 @ 1:30 am
Dang Jessica, you are gonna be on Oprah next month???????? I wanna go, You are so lucky, LOL
Have a good one !
36. Mary Beth
October 3, 2008 @ 9:56 am
I was one of those moms that got her children vaccinated and my youngest son still got whooping cough in the 4th grade. He basically missed about a month of school because he could not stop coughing. Literally coughed until he threw up. He was misdiagnosed at first with walking pneumonia but when he didn’t respond to meds, they knew it was whooping cough. The doctor said it is a lousy vaccine and it only lasts about 10 years and my son was 10 years old. I believe they are giving a booster shot for it now but it made me realize that these vaccinations are not the end all for diseases and illnesses. My son was a healthy athletic and smart kid and to see him brought down by something he had been vaccinated was hard to watch. It took him a few months to recover and then he went through asthmatic symptoms for about a year before he was totally restored to health.
So his vaccination didn’t do much to protect him and I wonder how the others rate as well.
37. Jessica
October 3, 2008 @ 10:45 am
Yeah, especially the Polio vaccine. That vaccine is totally worthless.
(Oh, the days of Polio, those were good times. Good times.)
38. Jessica
October 3, 2008 @ 11:00 am
Yes, but I’d just like to point out dietary improvements can benefit any child. All children can benefit from better/proper nutrition and certain supplements.
I would also like to point out, that if a child is allergic to wheat, and they exhibit certain behaviors as a result, of course they’re going to benefit drastically from eliminating the allergen, but allergies are not the same thing as autism, although they often mimic autistic behaviors. Sometimes these are comorbid issues and other times it’s the cause of the behavior to begin with. And, not all ADD or austistic children have food allergies or sensitivies, so these diets aren’t necessarily a panacea.
39. Cin
October 3, 2008 @ 10:48 pm
Well funny that I just got here and this is the first post I read, since I just got done watching my DVR of Ellen with Jenny McCarthy! I thought she was great in the interview and now I’m all questioning my judgment!
She made a point to say she is not against vaccinations but she thinks it is time to re-evaluate the ingredients. She also clarified that it is not possible to be “cured” of autism, only for degrees of recovery. I am becoming more and more involved in the benefits of diet and was all drinking her kool aid, but I am disappointed to hear that she left out the part about the expensive therapy.
How’d I do?
40. Ben Dover
October 14, 2008 @ 9:28 am
Jenny McCarthy is one dumbest bimbos in hollywood or anywhere else for that matter. She is a helicopter mother living with another freak, Jim Carrey, as it that will help her situation.
41. Jennifer
October 19, 2008 @ 6:56 pm
Actually, everything McCarthy is speaking about is widely known and used by many doctors. She is the only celebrity who has had the guts to come forward. But, I guess she can’t know anything because she has fake breasts? Isn’t that a bit sexist? Anyway, I digress..
I have heard so many anecdotal reports talking about the methods that McCarthy uses with her son as I have a daughter on the spectrum. It’s very convenient to decide that if a child recovers then they can’t have had TRUE autism in the first place… convenient.
The patients always know and test the latest treatments… working or not because they are the ones who really need it and aren’t in it for profit or fame. They want to help their children.
I’m sorry you are having such an issue with boobs. I hope you get help with that.
42. Amanda
November 21, 2008 @ 1:35 pm
What I am wondering is if any of these kids were ever diagnosed with Celiac Disease?? I read McCarthy’s book, Louder Than Words, Evan began to have symptoms at the time his intestines would have started to have damage from CD. He also recieved his MMR around this time.
Celiacs can have seizures! Celiacs no matter what age, can start to have emotional, personality, and cognitive changes. McCarthy herself claims an Irish/German heritage, the largest amount of diagnosed Celiacs in the world is Belfast according to research from Columbia University.
I am a grown adult with Celiac and I get that dazed feeling when I eat anything with gluten, my speech even slurs! Not all Celiacs are people with horrendous diarrhea. Since being diagnosed and having damage, I take a vitamin B12 supplement and prenatal vitamins (high Folate) because Celiacs are low on B12 and Folate which are needed for neurologic function.
My only complaint on McCarthy is that she needs to really back her experiences up with some scientific basis a little more. I think she is on the right track but I think the reason everything worked so well for her is that she was actually dealing with something a little different than what she thought. She keeps calling his condition “leaky gut” what does that mean?? I would buy it that her son was born with the genes for an autoimmune disorder that might have been triggered by the vaccines but that will not happen to all kids. Celiac can be triggered by so many things, you just have to have the gene.
I just don’t think she had the knowledge base in her book for what she wanted to say.
I think she puts it well at the end of her book by saying her book is not about science but about her faith and determination do help Evan.
Parents should hold onto that.
I don’t want to get on my Celiac Soapbox but I think she really needs to figure out what that “leaky gut” diagnosis really is. If these kids have Celiac she needs to be thinking about that. Not all autistic kids are gluten/casein intolerant or Celiacs. We may never know if Evan has Celiac’s because if I was her I wouldn’t put him back on that diet just to prove a point.
Sorry for the long comment but I feel like doctors don’t listen to patients, are not willing to think outside of the box..It’s a simple blood test for antibodies!
I am a nurse and the doctors I work with will not even think about taking a simple blood test for patients who are frustrated and the docs can’t figure out what is wrong with them.
A Celiac Panel after solid foods are introduced when a child starts acting different or part of a Autism work up could be a big help. More than likely, the child is going to have blood drawn anyway.
As far as the sex symbol thing, yeah, she is one but that does not take away from her being a passionate caring mother. She is a human being; not perfect. I commend her for being so vulnerable to put herself out there like this. I hope that she increases her knowledge base so that she can have something more analytical and scientific back her up.
Consider this though, some of the biggest discoveries in science started out with instincts…it has to start somewhere.
43. Formerly known as
November 21, 2008 @ 6:53 pm
I think autism has a genetic link and has nothing to do with vaccines. I think people who do not vaccinate their children are doing the rest of the population a huge diservice. Polio is almost totally eradicated in the US due to vaccines.
Yes you do need boosters for some vaccines. You can get the disease again if the vaccines wear off. I work in the health field I can not tell you how many pushy moms I have met who try to get their childrens vaccines early because they do not want to bring their children back at their scheduled time. Vaccines need to be given as scheduled to be effective.
Stop blaming autism on vaccines.
44. ambull
November 21, 2008 @ 8:42 pm
i don’t really have an opinion on this subject at this time, but i’m laughing my BUTT off at the BEN DOVER poster name….so highschool and sooo funny!!!
jessica, can i change my name to Eileen Dover?
45. DesertMommy
January 2, 2009 @ 4:16 am
When you’re a parent that’s good enough “science”. You do what works. She doesn’t have to wait for a double blind study to help her little one. Your tone is so sarcastic and hateful on this blog. Surprising its so popular, Oprah and all that. Most moms I know are so kind and uplifting of each other. You reply with such venom. Relax and let Jenny McCarthy be. She loves her son like you love your little ones.
46. claire louise
April 1, 2009 @ 4:14 pm
I could not agree more. My son has Aspergers. I know he will never be cured then again do I want him to be ? He is who he is and I LOVE HIM FOR THIS. Jenny McCarthy go away.
47. Mac
June 10, 2009 @ 8:18 pm
I know I’m late coming to this, but to ‘the young mother’ (which–I’m just sayin’–probably shows your level of intellect and education, since polls show that the majority of educated people have fewer children and wait until a later age to do so), YOU’RE the one who keeps bringing up Jenny’s ‘big boobs and beautiful body’, NOT Jessica (who brought it up once).
48. Mac
June 10, 2009 @ 8:25 pm
Oh and regarding the people who think the fact that their grandfather or some other large number of people (and 11 people out of the SIX BILLION here on earth sure is a big number!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) who were ‘cured’ by holistic means, explain to me why Daniel Hauser (son of Colleen Hauser, who recently had to be ordered by a court to get REAL medical treatment for her son’s CURABLE disease b/c she was too busy calling her son a ’shaman’ and giving him holistic ‘medicine’ and ‘treatments’) got much worse as his disease progressed. Is Ms. Hauser’s holistic approach not the right one, sort of like the whole ‘my God is better than your God’ argument?
49. TheYoungMother
June 10, 2009 @ 8:41 pm
Mac:
LOL! That’s your argument? Way to go on showing YOUR intellect buddy. I respect everyone’s point of view. But *trying* to put me down because of my opinion on this article (not to mention your ridiculous comment on my screen name lol) really shows YOUR true colors. Gosh, At least bring a valid argument or statement to the table , not just some unfounded comment about a screen name! And at least the opposing views here have some valid statements. I’d rather be a young mother and stick to what I believe in, than be older, and come up with a stupid comment like that. Good Job…
50. HothCold
July 27, 2009 @ 10:32 pm
I’ve loved Jenny McCarthy since I was 17 yrs old. I’m actually somewhat jealous of Jim Carrey, & I think she still looks gorgeous.
I had a series of her posters, some of the Playboy magazines in which she was featured, I bought a surfing compilation album just because she was affilated with the CD, and sat through SCREAM 3 because she had a minor part in that film. After her dreadful NBC sitcom JENNY was cancelled, her popularity began to dwindle, and I moved on.
Years later, I learned she had written some books; one detailing her pregnancy, & the other discussing how she copes with the challenges of raising an autistic child.
After reading both, my first thought honestly was “That’s what you get for posing nude”. My second thought was “Do you kiss your mother with that mouth?” Practically, every second word was either f***, c***s*****, or m*****f*****. My third thought was “So this is your career now, huh? You’re exploiting your sons’ condition and posing as an expert on autism”.
I’m not sure where I’m going with this, (and I realize I completely missed the point of your blog), but I don’t think it’s fair to call Jenny an idiot. She’s a better mom than some of the others who appear in the tabloids or certain hit TLC shows. I also think that she’s simply living by the mantra “When life hands you lemons, make lemonade”.
If I admire Jenny for only one thing, it’d be her unmatched beauty.
51. MotherOfThree
September 26, 2009 @ 5:35 am
I admire Jenny for trying to find a cure for her son’s autism.
Early 2007 I had a seizure and hit my head.
Immediately after that I’d have these dizzy spells accompanied by headaches that would last anywhere from 1 minute to 20 minutes! They were horrible and affected my ability to function normally. If I was out doing something and I had a spell I had to stop what I was doing immediately and couldn’t continue on until the spell was over. I went to doctor after doctor and had test upon test done and nothing was found! Finally in January 2009 I was diagnosed with what they like to call “Trama Headaches”. They were described to me as my brain constantly reliving the fall I had during the seizure many years back! Bad news is they said there wasn’t a cure and I’d probably experience them off and on for the rest of my life.
I’m pregnant with my 3rd child and with this pregnancy have had tons of back pain. My OB suggested I go to a chiropractor and get an adjustment cause she felt my spine was all messed up due to my previous 2 pregnancies. I went hoping to get my back straightened out but got much much more! During the examination the doctor pressed down on my head putting pressure on my neck. Immediately I went into one of my “Trama Headaches” only my ear was hurting so bad and was ringing. I let him know what was going on and low and behold my neck is all messed up! My nerves haven’t been working right because of it! After 3 appointments not only was my back in great shape but my “Trama Headaches” were completely gone!
Moral of this story is: Doctors are wrong a lot. They are “practicing” physicians and they don’t always get it right! If Jenny thinks there may be a cure out there for her son then she should try to find it! Who knows he may not even be autistic as all!
52. dominowrecker
December 5, 2009 @ 10:24 pm
“Moral of this story is: Doctors are wrong a lot. They are “practicing” physicians and they don’t always get it right! If Jenny thinks there may be a cure out there for her son then she should try to find it! Who knows he may not even be autistic as all!”
Wow…Of course doctors are not right a 100% as the human body is VERY difficult to understand. But they still know an infinite amount more about vaccines/medicine/biology than JM.
If she was quietly looking for alternative ways to care for her son that would be one thing, but she is on TV and all over the press acting like an expert (and she is getting way more coverage than people who DO know about the subject might I add). That is what makes her so dangerous. It really is sad that we live in a age when people will listen to an ex-model with no medical/science education of any kind, over real doctors/scientists. That thought keeps me up at night.
Trust me on this. When this idiot gets older and she needs real medical advice…she will be going to the very same doctors who she feels she knows more than.
53. Pammieautiemom
December 15, 2009 @ 5:32 pm
Jenny McCarthy and the NEW age INFILTRATION OF AUTISM COMMUNITY:
Where does Mccarthy get her inspiration and core belief system that influences her book writings and claims of curing her autistic child?
She gets them through people like: Esther Hicks an American inspirational speaker and best-selling author. Ester and husband Jerry Hicks, present workshops on the Law of Attraction and appeared in the first release of the film The Secret The Hickses’ books, including the best-selling series The Law of Attraction, are — according to Esther Hicks — Channelled from a group of non-physical entities called Abraham (Hicks describes what she is doing as tapping into “infinite intelligence. Jenny also prays to the dead, as seen in her book, “mother warriors.” Likewise, she thinks if your child isn’t cured of autism, then you must not want to ‘be left alone in autism” Yes, apparently, according to mccarthy, if you are a parent dealing with autism it’s because you aren’t following what she–the moral new age superior thinker, thinks is the holier than thou morally intellectually superior way to heal autism. Unreal. This chick needs her ass kicked big time from parents who actually have truly autistic kids. It seems like those who follow or are duped by McCarthy are compromised individuals who themselves have some new age belief …a bunch of glazed eyed new age gluten free will cure the world let’s go organic and stop global warming hippies as in Jenny Mccarthy’s indigo mom belief…who they are better than everyone else..Oh PLEASE…Lord have mercy…may God open the eyes and knock some sense into the heads of all who advocate the Jenny Mccarthy lies. McCarthy’s son was NEVER autistic. He isn’t autistic. You idiots at Dutton need a reality check.