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Senior Staff Writer at Vice. Before: Jezebel, Village Voice, Dallas Observer. Author of REPUBLIC OF LIES. Tips: anna.merlan@vice.com. DM for Signal.

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    Anna Merlan‏Verified account @annamerlan 20 Mar 2019

    Spent a lot of time looking into Generation Rescue, the charity for autistic kids whose board president is Jenny McCarthy. I found that they're still peddling discredited ideas, and that board members seem to have had a financial interest in many of them.https://jezebel.com/jenny-mccarthys-autism-charity-has-helped-its-board-mem-1832461139 …

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      2. Anna Merlan‏Verified account @annamerlan 20 Mar 2019

        I have just a couple followup thoughts here: one is that while we often talk about the anti-vaccine crowd and their ill effects, we rarely talk about the actual dubious products and services being peddled to the families of kids with an autism diagnosis.

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      3. Anna Merlan‏Verified account @annamerlan 20 Mar 2019

        Looking at some of this stuff, it was very, very easy for me to see how a family in crisis wouldn't know who to trust or what constituted sound medical advice.

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      4. Anna Merlan‏Verified account @annamerlan 20 Mar 2019

        The other thing I keep thinking about, for this and so many other stories, is how thoroughly we inhabit an era of Zombie Facts: no matter how bad or discredited something is, it always seems to loom back up to be energetically peddled by someone.

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      1. The Real Truther‏ @thereal_truther 20 Mar 2019
        Replying to @annamerlan

        Thank you for writing this. It is a brilliant, well-researched expose. Generation Rescue does a great disservice to the autism community. Thank you for exposing them for what they are. Charlatans profiting off exploiting others.

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      2. Scott Krugman, MD‏Verified account @Dr_ScottK 20 Mar 2019
        Replying to @annamerlan @thereal_truther

        So not surprised.

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      3. The Real Truther‏ @thereal_truther 20 Mar 2019
        Replying to @Dr_ScottK @annamerlan

        It would be surprising if they WEREN'T profiting.

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      2. Michael Melgar, MD‏ @mmelgar09 20 Mar 2019
        Replying to @annamerlan

        I never understood why anyone takes medical/health advice from celebrities (jenny mccarthy, suzanne somers, gwyneth paltrow, oprah winfrey etc etc). Following that logic if I start giving stupid acting advice I should have millions of followers and money to burn

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      3. Al Davis‏ @AlDavis103 20 Mar 2019
        Replying to @mmelgar09 @annamerlan

        Well in the case of McCarthy....boobs.

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      2. (((JFC))) get rid of the damned nazis!‏ @joffiecakes 20 Mar 2019
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        You’re gross. Go away.

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