As the mother of an autistic child, Jenny McCarthy is also an author and activist for autism cause. According to the couple, a well-known and highly respected gastroenterologist, Dr. Andrew Wakefield, has conducted a crucial vaccine study using monkeys. The research contained troubling and overwhelming data that seemed to add credibility to the theory that it is neurologically damaging to over-vaccinate young children, and can cause many of them to have autism.

Dr. Wakefield’s study also contends that the “fallout from the study for vaccine makers and public health officials could be severe.” They have so long repressed the possibility of the connection between vaccine and autism as they have gained huge profits worldwide specially with the recent boom in vaccine sales. It is not surprising, therefore, that these people would do everything to repudiate this important work.