Living with Jenny McCarthy must have infected Jim Carrey's brain, because yesterday he posted an astonishingly fallacious antivaccination propaganda piece for the Huffington Post screed. Carrey is the boyfriend of Public Health Threat Jenny McCarthy and has been an antivaccination advocate for some time. He is a funny guy and a movie star, but I don't think either of those things should give him a public voice wherein he can mislead people about vaccinations. The article Carrey wrote has so much wrong in it that it almost qualifies as self-satirizing. His very first paragraph is a textbook example of spin. Basically, a few months ago a special court looked at three cases of potential damage due to vaccinations, and found no evidence of any connection. About this, Carrey says:
...a ruling against causation in three cases out of more than 5000 hardly proves that other children won't be adversely affected ...
