Splash, a style magazine in Chicago, is reporting that they've hired Jenny McCarthy to be their new daily blogger. Yes, you read that right. But it gets better. And by better, I mean worse.
Besides a daily blog, she's being given a weekly advice column called "Ask Jenny", where, among other things, she will "tackle parenting". Tackle, indeed. Body slam is more like it. As someone who strongly advocates parents to get their kids vaccinated - y'know, to keep them from contracting potentially debilitating or deadly diseases, because I'm funny that way - I am not exactly a fan of Ms. McCarthy. I've written about her many, many times, because of her tenuous grasp of medical reality. She has for example repeatedly and fallaciously linked vaccines to autism, and has spouted inflated propaganda about toxic ingredients in them. If you want the truth about vaccinations, and why they are critical ...