{"id":183520,"date":"2013-02-05T21:10:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T02:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/02\/05\/good-8\/"},"modified":"2013-02-05T21:10:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T02:10:00","slug":"good-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/02\/05\/good-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jenny McCarthy has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/ottawa\/story\/2013\/02\/01\/ottawa-fundraiser-drops-jenny-mccarthy.html\">has been dropped from a cancer fundraiser because of her anti-vaccine bullsh%$<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Ottawa Cancer Foundation has reversed its decision to hire actress and model Jenny McCarthy to headline its one-day fitness fundraiser Bust A Move.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">In a statement released late Friday afternoon, the foundation said McCarthy would be replaced by Canadian celebrity fitness instructor and former CFL player Tommy Europe.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The statement said that since the announcement of McCarthy&#8217;s appearance, &#8220;&#8230;attention has shifted away from breast cancer awareness and fundraising.&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">On Tuesday, McCarthy was revealed as Bust A Move&#8217;s guest fitness instructor, which caused many to question why an organization supporting cancer research would invite someone with a history of promoting erroneous ideas about health and disease.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Despite reams of scientific research to the contrary, McCarthy writes and speaks publicly about the supposed link between child vaccination and autism. The former Playboy Playmate also blames her son&#8217;s autism on vaccinations.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Word of McCarthy&#8217;s appearance at a charity cancer event sparked a #dropjenny hashtag on Twitter, which generated many comments about whether the actress was a credible choice. Similar online debate occurred on Bust A Move&#8217;s Facebook page.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not saying that Jenny McCarthy should not be able to work because of her beliefs, but allowing her to be a spokesperson for anything remotely medical is like having Ant\u00f3nio Egas Moniz (the inventor of the prefrontal lobotomy) as a spokesman for psychological counseling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jenny McCarthy has been has been dropped from a cancer fundraiser because of her anti-vaccine bullsh%$: The Ottawa Cancer Foundation has reversed its decision to hire actress and model Jenny McCarthy to headline its one-day fitness fundraiser Bust A Move.In a statement released late Friday afternoon, the foundation said McCarthy would be replaced by Canadian &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1067,1176,1204,1064,1074],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communications","category-disabilities","category-junk-science","category-media","category-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183520"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}