# Another Worthless Celebrity Anti-Vaxer **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 14, 2014, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-worthless-celebrity-anti-vaxer/683734 "2014-03-14T23:57:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-worthless-celebrity-anti-vaxer/683734/1 "2014-03-14T23:57:03Z")
[Kristin Cavallari is the latest celebrity anti-vax mom](http://news.google.com/news/url?sr=1&ct2=us%2F1_0_s_9_1_a&sa=t&usg=AFQjCNFoqCfYX2bL7ApstsB8Ul896yWFQg&cid=52778439832558&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.techtimes.com%2Farticles%2F4416%2F20140314%2Fkristin-cavallari-is-the-latest-of-the-celebrity-anti-vax-moms.htm&ei=mpMjU_C8Jcy4mQK12QE&sig2=VFGJGowil3UHsXKAtas21g&rt=SECTION&vm=STANDARD&bvm=section&did=6641480974238317406&sid=en_us%3Am&ssid=m) Incapable of reasoned research into vacine safety. Just another fucking way to get her ego stuffed into the headlines. I don’t see it happening but these ----ers should face civil lawsuits for their “endorsements” of treatment (or non-treatment). Screw her, Wakefield, McCarthy, and that moronic bitch Oprah for sponsoring this garbage. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2014, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-worthless-celebrity-anti-vaxer/683734/2 "2014-03-15T00:08:56Z")
FOX & Friends should change their name to FOX & _ **Fiends** _. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2014, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-worthless-celebrity-anti-vaxer/683734/3 "2014-03-15T02:36:53Z")
I should shudder to think that it will take a couple of deaths of celebrity children to make a difference, but I know better. They’ll be blamed on other people, or if, heaven forfend, they blame themselves, it will be for entirely the wrong reasons. “Oh, I should never have allowed little Tavendish to play with those other children! It’s all my fault I wasn’t as much of a helicopter parent as I should have been!” It will, unfortunately, take an outright epidemic among celebrity children to change this. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2014, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-worthless-celebrity-anti-vaxer/683734/4 "2014-03-15T03:35:24Z")
> [@](#): > > "There is a pediatric group called Homestead or, shoot, Homestead or Home First – now I have pregnancy brain, I got them confused – but they’ve never vaccinated any of their children and they’ve never had one case of autism. No, you have shit for brains. ---
**Author:** ![Deeg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deeg/32/2955_2.png) [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2014, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-worthless-celebrity-anti-vaxer/683734/5 "2014-03-15T03:39:09Z")
Are there any pro-vax celebrities? ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2014, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-worthless-celebrity-anti-vaxer/683734/6 "2014-03-15T03:42:54Z")
Yeah, all the rest. People who aren’t stupid typically don’t feel the need to call attention to their lack of stupidity. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2014, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-worthless-celebrity-anti-vaxer/683734/7 "2014-03-15T03:47:09Z")
> [@Deeg](#): > > Are there any pro-vax celebrities? OTTOMH, Salma Hayek, Bill Gates, and Amanda Peet are pretty outspoken about vaccination. So’s Barry Obama. I think there are a fair number of paid spokespeople for various pro-vax organizations. . ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2014, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-worthless-celebrity-anti-vaxer/683734/8 "2014-03-15T06:29:23Z")
What we need is for the pro-vax PSAs to be more agressive, and call out the anti-vaxers by name, publicly shaming them for their stupidity and for the dangerous disinformation they spew. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2014, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-worthless-celebrity-anti-vaxer/683734/9 "2014-03-15T08:58:42Z")
Didn’t Bill Gates write a scathing piece that was directed at Jenny McCarthy? I can’t remember if it actually called her out by name though. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2014, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-worthless-celebrity-anti-vaxer/683734/10 "2014-03-15T09:53:15Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > Didn’t Bill Gates write a scathing piece that was directed at Jenny McCarthy? I can’t remember if it actually called her out by name though. Penn & Teller aired a scathing piece in which they named that lunatic for her stupidity. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2014, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-worthless-celebrity-anti-vaxer/683734/11 "2014-03-15T10:35:24Z")
> [@andros](#): > > OTTOMH, Salma Hayek, Bill Gates, and Amanda Peet are pretty outspoken about vaccination. So’s Barry Obama. I think there are a fair number of paid spokespeople for various pro-vax organizations. > . Which pro-vax organizations pay? Name some names! (“Barry” Obama?) ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2014, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-worthless-celebrity-anti-vaxer/683734/12 "2014-03-15T11:13:06Z")
> [@Bridget\_Burke](#): > > Which pro-vax organizations pay? Name some names! > > **(“Barry” Obama?)** Code for " I hate that uppity black man who’s illegally occupying the White House." ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2014, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-worthless-celebrity-anti-vaxer/683734/13 "2014-03-15T12:45:06Z")
Kristin who? ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2014, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-worthless-celebrity-anti-vaxer/683734/14 "2014-03-15T12:47:52Z")
If she’s a Fox on-air personality, can we now “look forward to” a wave of conservatives who refuse vaccinations? Or will the liberal crossover of this belief keep them from doing it? ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2014, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-worthless-celebrity-anti-vaxer/683734/15 "2014-03-15T12:47:52Z")
AFAIK, “Barry” isn’t code for anything other than the nickname the president used for most of his life. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2014, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-worthless-celebrity-anti-vaxer/683734/16 "2014-03-15T13:12:00Z")
[Autism/ pollution link](http://time.com/25424/growing-evidence-that-autism-is-linked-to-pollution/?hpt=hp_t2)? ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2014, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-worthless-celebrity-anti-vaxer/683734/17 "2014-03-15T13:36:52Z")
[Jenny McCarthy getting her ass kicked on Twitter.](https://twitter.com/search?q=%23jennyasks) She asked what people looked for in a mate. People had a lot of fun explaining to her that someone who doesn’t think measles is a good thing was on the top of that list. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2014, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-worthless-celebrity-anti-vaxer/683734/18 "2014-03-15T14:26:48Z")
> [@LavenderBlue](#): > > [Jenny McCarthy getting her ass kicked on Twitter.](https://twitter.com/search?q=%23jennyasks) She asked what people looked for in a mate. People had a lot of fun explaining to her that someone who doesn’t think measles is a good thing was on the top of that list. THAT is fucking hilarious. Thanks for sharing it! ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2014, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-worthless-celebrity-anti-vaxer/683734/19 "2014-03-15T14:33:46Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > If she’s a Fox on-air personality, can we now “look forward to” a wave of conservatives who refuse vaccinations? Or will the liberal crossover of this belief keep them from doing it? She’s not. Did you bother reading the article before commenting? She was a guest on a morning show. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2014, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-worthless-celebrity-anti-vaxer/683734/20 "2014-03-15T14:35:45Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > THAT is fucking hilarious. Thanks for sharing it! I particularly liked: I’m looking for a woman who can watch an infant die from measles and say, “Well, at least he’s not autistic.” #jennyasks #vaccinate [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-worthless-celebrity-anti-vaxer/683734.md?page=2)