Listening to parents at AutismOne

[HuckleB]

http://autism-news-beat.com/archives/1030

"The anti-vaccine movement frequently complains that the medical establishment doesn’t spend enough time listening to parents. Sometimes the news and entertainment media take the bait.

“It is impossible to overlook the larger and direct dangers inherent in (Jenny McCarthy’s) position on vaccines,” wrote Karl Taro Greenfeld in Time Magazine last winter. “Yet it is equally difficult to ignore the emotional core of what she is saying: Listen to parents. If doctors won’t, then McCarthy will.”

The “parent as victim” meme is the donkey that pulls the anti-vaccine cart. McCarthy speaks lovingly of her “angry mob”. Generation Rescue founder J.B. Handley boasts of harnessing that anger to “bring the U.S. vaccine program to its knees.”

But last week, a member of the “medical establishment” was listening to parents at the annual AutismOne confab at Chicago’s Westin O’Hare. What happened next shows us that the “emotional core” of Jenny McCarthy’s angry mob is as hollow as its science.

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Another amazing anecdote about human hypocrisy.

:hi:

[HuckleB]

1. One selfish kick.

[JohnnyLib2]

2. Thank you.

Rec.

I've dealt with parents who have chased this angle at length. Grasping at straws, I'm afraid. :hi: