McCain's McCarthyism. McMaybe.

My head is spinning after researching this blog post. See if you can follow along here. You may want to sit down, and have a bucket of water handy. A while back, Presidential candidate John McCain said that there was evidence that vaccines cause autism. This did not endear him to me. Then, actress Jenny McCarthy became an outspoken advocate of this non-existing link. Now, in an interview with Access Hollywood (link goes to video, skip to about 2:00 minutes in), McCarthy says she has tried to contact McCain, hoping to convince him to be a champion of her antiscience inquisition. Still with me? OK, this gets harder to follow. The interview with Access Hollywood has been picked up by various online sites. Both ContactMusic and IMDB have reprinted the same article (evidently from a news service), and they both say McCain turned her down! Why? According to the news article, it's because McCain denied her requests "after learning there's no hard medical evidence linking vaccines and autism." Hey, good on him. That's very cool that he's taking the side of science and -- [insert comical record scratching sound effect here] Wait! Hold the onions! According to McCarthy in the actual interview with Access Hollywood, that's not the case: