Painfully ill-informed, scare-mongering, rude and irresponsible - Jeni Barnett vs MMR

Posted: Wed 11th Feb 2009@12:19

I just read this well written post, linked to by Stephen Fry about a radio broadcast hosted by Jeni Barnett, regarding her views on the MMR vaccine. I managed to find the recordings of the show on you tube, and listened to the whole lot. (Part 1,2,3,4, 5 - about 40 mins in total)

I found it to be a little one-sided, and when the presenter was speaking to someone who agreed with her, she gave them leave to talk freely, but the ones who were against here (seemingly informed, and from a medical background) were cut off mid-sentance and not allowed to voice their views.

I was particularly appalled at Jeni Barnett's closing conversation (Part 5) with a Nurse who administers the MMR vaccine, and seemed to know what she was talking about, who was cut off, and accused of frightening people (along with the department of health). This actually made me quite angry!

I happily notice that this has been brought up as an Early Day Motion in parliament against the dangers of ill-informed media scaremongering.

Some interesting information about this from the author of original post is here.

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