Jim Carrey unleashes Twitter storm against California's vaccine mandate!
Jim Carrey reignites the vaccine controversy with a fiery Twitter storm against California's strict mandate. Despite medical experts debunking his thimerosal concerns, Carrey's history of vaccine advocacy resurfaces, offering a nostalgic look back at his past involvement in the contentious debate.
Updated : January 08, 2024 01:49 PM ISTJim Carrey reignites the vaccine controversy with a fiery Twitter storm against California's strict mandate. Despite medical experts debunking his thimerosal concerns, Carrey's history of vaccine advocacy resurfaces, offering a nostalgic look back at his past involvement in the contentious debate.
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As the world grappled with the aftermath of a Disneyland measles outbreak in December 2014, Hollywood's beloved Jim Carrey found himself in the eye of a storm. California Governor Jerry Brown had just signed a stringent law mandating vaccinations for all public school children. Jim Carrey, known for his witty humor on-screen, took to Twitter on July 1, 2015, to express his vehement disagreement.
“California Gov says yes to poisoning more children with mercury and aluminum in mandatory vaccines. This corporate fascist must be stopped.” Carrey's tweet was a fiery indictment of the vaccine mandate, setting off a heated online debate.
In a series of tweets, Carrey questioned the safety of mandatory vaccines, drawing an analogy between mercury in fish and thimerosal in vaccines. "They say mercury in fish is dangerous, but forcing all of our children to be injected with mercury in thimerosal is no risk. Make sense?" The tweets fueled both support and criticism, prompting Carrey to clarify his stance.
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“I am not anti-vaccine. I am anti-thimerosal, anti-mercury. They have taken some of the mercury-laden thimerosal out of vaccines. NOT ALL!” Carrey emphasized his concerns about thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative. However, the data revealed that thimerosal had been removed from routine child vaccines in California since 2001.
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Despite Carrey's passionate tweets, medical experts dismissed his concerns. Dr. Mark Horton, director of the California Department of Public Health, stated, "Thimerosal was removed from all routine child vaccines in 2001. Despite the removal, autism rates have continued to rise. This is the opposite of what would be expected if thimerosal caused autism." Dr. Harvey Karp, an assistant professor of pediatrics, added that Carrey's concerns had "no scientific validity," emphasizing the absence of connections between autism and immunization.
This Twitter storm wasn't Carrey's first foray into the vaccination debate. In 2008, he and then-girlfriend Jenny McCarthy led a Green Our Vaccines Rally. His distrust of vaccinations was further documented in a 2009 article for the Huffington Post.
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