Oprah drinks the antivax Kool Aid

I knew that Oprah Winfrey was prone to antiscience; she has all sorts of New Age nonsense on her show, and the one time Randi was on in recent years he found the experience frustrating; Oprah unabashedly promotes all kinds of superstitious garbage. But now she's gone way, way too far: she's signed Jenny McCarthy -- notorious for her misleading statements about vaccines and autism -- on for a multi-platform deal. McCarthy has advocated a link between autism and vaccinations for years. She has written and spoken about it at length in very large venues like Oprah's and Larry King's shows, but her claims are wrong. Worse, they're dangerous: by claiming vaccines are dangerous, she is scaring parents into delaying or even preventing their children from being vaccinated. I don't think this threat to the health of our children can be overstated: we have already seen a dramatic rise in ...