{"id":187981,"date":"2011-01-06T21:14:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T02:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/01\/06\/jenny-mccarthy-can-kiss-my-shiny-metal-ass\/"},"modified":"2011-01-06T21:14:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T02:14:00","slug":"jenny-mccarthy-can-kiss-my-shiny-metal-ass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/01\/06\/jenny-mccarthy-can-kiss-my-shiny-metal-ass\/","title":{"rendered":"Jenny McCarthy Can Kiss My Shiny Metal Ass*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img198.imageshack.us\/img198\/5166\/shinymetalass.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" \/>Steven Wakefield&#8217;s now discredited paper in <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Lancet<\/span> claiming a tie between autism and vaccines is now more than just a zealot doing bad science.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Deer of the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">British Medical Journal<\/span> reveals that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/342\/bmj.c5347\">it was outright fraud<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">In the first part of a special BMJ series, Brian Deer exposes the bogus data behind claims that launched a worldwide scare over the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine, and reveals how the appearance of a link with autism was manufactured at a London medical school.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Unknown to Mr 11, Wakefield was working on a lawsuit, for which he sought a bowel-brain \u201csyndrome\u201d as its centrepiece.  Claiming an undisclosed \u00a3150 (\u20ac180, $230) an hour through a Norfolk  solicitor named Richard Barr, he had been confidentially 8 put on the payroll two years before the paper was published, eventually grossing him \u00a3435\u2009643, plus expenses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">emphasis original<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>Now the question is when he goes to jail for fraud, though if I were the prosecutor, I would add felony murder to the bill of indictment as well.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stopjenny.com\/\">Jenny McCarthy is a big antivaxxer<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Wakefield&#8217;s now discredited paper in Lancet claiming a tie between autism and vaccines is now more than just a zealot doing bad science. Brian Deer of the British Medical Journal reveals that it was outright fraud: In the first part of a special BMJ series, Brian Deer exposes the bogus data behind claims that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,969,1074,1150,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-evil","category-medical","category-public-health","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187981"}],"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=187981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}