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
- Jenny McCarthy once again appeared in February 2012 to discuss vaccines and autism yet again
All together, Jenny McCarthy appeared with Larry King at least seven times!
Like Oprah and some others, Larry King provided a high profile platform for many anti-vaccine celebrities and “to promote anti-vaccine pseudoscience.”
More On Larry King:
- Celebrities Who Advocate For Vaccines
- Celebrities Who Appear to Be Anti-Vaccine
- Explaining the Correlation of Autism After Vaccines
- Vaccines and Autism Redux
- How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Hurts Autistic Families
- 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