My wife and i first noticed our friends' preoccupation with autism and vaccines in late 2007, right around the time former TV star and Playboy Playmate Jenny McCarthy published the first of several bestsellers in which she claimed that the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine had probably given her son autism. As we soon discovered, McCarthy's intuition-based approach to medicine (she referred to it as "mommy instinct") had a number of adherents among our friends.
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