Oh, she's the celebrity face of the anti-vaccine movement. It's both hilarious and tragic.
At first she believed that her son was an "Indigo child" (whut), then got a misdiagnosis of autism, which led to her little antivax crusade. It's now thought that her son actually had Landau-Kleffner syndrome, because he no longer shows signs of autism.
Unfortunately, her standing jump to the wrong conclusion has convinced thousands of American parents not to vaccinate their kids for fear of autism. As a result, thousands of kids are getting preventable disease and hundreds are dying.
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Date: 2010-04-22 04:19 pm (UTC)At first she believed that her son was an "Indigo child" (whut), then got a misdiagnosis of autism, which led to her little antivax crusade. It's now thought that her son actually had Landau-Kleffner syndrome, because he no longer shows signs of autism.
Unfortunately, her standing jump to the wrong conclusion has convinced thousands of American parents not to vaccinate their kids for fear of autism. As a result, thousands of kids are getting preventable disease and hundreds are dying.