Kristin Cavallari Baby Won’t Be Vaccinated; Media War of Statistics Vs Correlation Begins As Kristin Cavallari and Jenny McCarthy Share Autism Concerns

Kristin Cavallari's baby won't be vaccinated.This set off a firestorm on the net as media outlets called Kristin Cavallari irresponsible and worse. Reality TV star Kristin Cavallari will never vaccinate her one-year-old son Camden because she's worried that vaccines cause autism.

Jenny McCarthy, on of the hosts of  "The View" has also been warning parents about the dangers of vaccination schedules. McCarthy's 11-year-old son Evan is autistic.

Jenny was heavily criticized in 2007 after launching an anti-vaccine movement.McCarthy claimed that Evan's autism was caused by the MMR vaccine, which protects against measles, mumps and rubella, he received as a baby. 

The comic actress said at the time, "We need to get rid of the toxins, the mercury - which I am so tired of everyone saying has been removed. It has not been removed from the shots."

Autism is a developmental disability. Sufferers find it difficult to have normal social interaction and have problems with communication and social interaction. Autism has no known cause or cure. The disability currently affects one in 88 children.

 Kristin Cavallari decided not to vaccinate her baby because of concerns that autism and childhood vaccinations are connected. Kristin Cavallari said she and her husband Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler decided not to vaccinate their children.

The 27-year-old former "Hills" star is pregnant with her second child. In a recent appearance on Fox show "The Independents," Kristin Cavallari host Lisa Kennedy Montgomery that she and husband Jay Cutler wouldn't be inoculating their children because the jury's not out on the connection to autism.

Cavallari told The Independents, "we don't vaccinate" because "I've read too many books about autism and the studies."

Former MTV VJ Kennedy, said "Well, my mom vaccinated us and she doesn't have any cases of autism either."

Cavallari answered, "The vaccinations have changed over the years, there's more mercury."

Cavallari said "Well, there is a pediatric group called Homestead, Homestead or Homefirst, now I have pregnancy brain I got them confused - they've never vaccinated any of their children, and they haven't had one case of autism. And now one in 88 boys is autistic, which is a really scary statistic."
She added on Fox & Friends on Friday, March 14 "It is a harsh response. You know, it's not something that I publicly wanted to come out and say. I was in an interview and it came up, and it wasn't what I was expecting. But, you know, listen, to each their own. I understand both sides of it. I've read too many books about autism and there's some scary statistics out there. It's our personal choice, you know, and if you're really concerned about your kid, then get them vaccinated and it shouldn't be a problem."

Kristin Cavallari, 27, has had to deal with backlash from some of the antics she pulled on "Laguna Beach" and "The Hills," and she expected more from this decision.
On March 14, Cavallari told HuffPost Live "Vaccines are not something I wanted to publicly come out and speak on. I sort of got bombarded in this interview and thrown off-guard."

Experts warned about following celebrity advice. Dr. Kenneth Alexander, chief of the section of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the University of Chicago, said "Any association between vaccines and autism has long been disproved. Her words are dangerous, will result in the under-immunization of children, and an increase in morbidity and mortality due to vaccine preventable diseases."

Jenny McCarthy is a vegan. Critics have hit her on remarks that she cured her son's autism by eliminating gluten from his diet. McCarthy wrote about a book about her attempts to cure Evan's autism called "Louder Than Words: A Mom's Journey in Healing Autism."

Cavallari explained "Something is happening, and we can't really ignore that. I choose to believe that I think it's in the vaccines but, again, to each their own and that's where I stand on it."

Salon slammed both McCarthy and Cavallari saying "The problem is that the concept of vaccines relies upon herd immunity - the idea that diseases won't be communicable because a critical mass of people are immune. Enough unvaccinated children can allow for the spread of diseases that had long been out of the conversation, like measles or whooping cough. This isn't an issue that ends at the Cavallari-Cutler household, like home-schooling; little Camden Cutler is weaponized to spread disease."

I'm sure Cavallari isn't intentionally arming Camden infect his friends, she's not auditioning for The Walking Dead, currently. Critics say McCarthy and Cavallari are confusing statistics with correlations. That the vaccinations have been cleared. The concerns continue and a growing number of people are unconvinced that their concerns shoud be discounted. If there is a cause and effect basis for the rapid increase in cases of Autism in the general time that vaccinations were redesigned and rescheduled, science should be allowed to further investigate. Many concerns have been ruled out completely, but not every case of the vaccine interaction has been problem-free.