Larry King on Vaccines

Most pediatricians can remember the increase in calls to their office from scared parents after these Larry King Live shows, such as when:

• Bill Maher appeared in 2005 saying the flu shot is dangerous because it contains mercury and that getting  “a flu shot is the worst thing you can do”
• Jenny McCarthy appeared in April 2008 to discuss vaccines and autism
• Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey appeared in April 2009 to discuss vaccines and autism

Like Oprah and some others, Larry King has provided a high profile platform for many anti-vaccine celebrities and “to promote anti-vaccine pseudoscience.”

For More Information On Larry King:

• The Jenny and Jim antivaccine show on Larry King Live
• Skeptical Battlegrounds: Part IV – Anti-Vaccine Hysteria
• “Oh, come on, Superman!”: Bill Maher versus “Western medicine”
• Jenny McCarthy setting the record straight…when it suits her
• Jenny McCarthy Calls “Bullshit” On Your “Medical Science”
• A Jenny McCarthy reader, Pt. 3: Jenny legitimizes the scientific fringe
• Oh Noes! More Anti-Vaccination, Autism Woo Ranting on Larry King
• A Broken Trust: Lessons from the Vaccine–Autism Wars
• Jenny McCarthy’s Vaccination Fear-Mongering and the Cult of False Equivalence