Celebrities Watch: Detour: The AAP Mythbusters want You!

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[Runman] As the Jenny McCarthy and "Eli Stone" stories illustrate, this issue is likely to recur in the national and local media. The AAP is committed to doing all we can to counter such erroneous reports with factual information supported by scientific evidence and AAP recommendations.

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[Good Math, Bad Math] Autism, Vaccines, and Ghouls: "The classic work on this subject by Columbia University historian Richard Hofstadter, 'Anti-Intellectualism in American Life,' was published in early 1963, between the anti-communist crusades of the McCarthy era and the social convulsions of the late 1960s. Hofstadter saw American anti-intellectualism as a basically cyclical phenomenon that often manifested itself as the dark side of the country's democratic impulses in religion and education.

[Julie's Health Club] How to be an AAP vaccine spokesperson: The first event was Jenny McCarthy's controversial memoir "Louder Than Words" and her subsequent media blitz that included appearances on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and "Larry King Live." McCarthy, who suspects a vaccine triggered her .

[Autism Vox] Vaccines in the Media: Emotion Trumping Reason?: Fitzgerald notes that anti-vaccine groups in the UK have sought celebrity endorsement (Nick Hornby and Juliet Stephenson), just as, in the US, autism groups such as TACA and the NAA, have gotten behind Jenny McCarthy and Deirdre .

[Grey Matter/White Matter] The AAP wants to hear from you: As the Jenny McCarthy and “Eli Stone” stories illustrate, this issue is likely to recur in the national and local media. The AAP is committed to doing all we can to counter such erroneous reports with factual information supported by .