Autism Activists: Temple Grandin, Jenny McCarthy, Dan Burton, Olaf Kolzig, Mark Geier, Scott Mellanby, James Harris Simons, Bernard Rimland

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Temple Grandin, Jenny McCarthy, Dan Burton, Olaf Kolzig, Mark Geier, Scott Mellanby, James Harris Simons, Bernard Rimland, Byron Dafoe, Rick Rollens, Sarah Stup, Eric Schmitt, JaLynn Prince, Vijendra K. Singh, David Kirby, Raun Kaufman, Dan Olmsted, Edward Yazbak, Amanda Baggs, Elizabeth Emken, Sarah Gardner, Jim Sinclair, Nicole Rogerson. Excerpt: Jennifer Ann "Jenny" McCarthy (born November 1, 1972) is an American model, comedian, actress, author and activist. She began her career in 1993 as a nude model for Playboy magazine and was later named their Playmate of the Year. McCarthy then parlayed her Playboy fame into a successful television and film acting career. Most recently, she has written books about parenting, and has become an activist promoting the controversial claims that vaccines cause autism and that chelation therapy helps cure it - both claims which are widely unrecognized or disputed by the medical community. McCarthy was born in Evergreen Park, Illinois to a middle-class Catholic family of Polish and Irish descent. She lived in the West Elsdon neighborhood of Chicago. She is the second of four daughters; her sisters are named Lynette, Joanne and Amy. Her cousin is actress Melissa McCarthy of Gilmore Girls and Mike and Molly fame. McCarthy's mother, Linda, was a housewife and courtroom custodian, and her father, Dan McCarthy, was a steel mill foreman. She attended St. Turibius Grade School on Chicago's South Side. As a teenager, McCarthy attended Mother McAuley Liberal Arts High School (whose school sweater she donned in the pages of Playboy) and was a cheerleader at both Brother Rice High School and St. Laurence High Schools, although she has referred to herself as an "outcast" at her school. After McCarthy graduated from high school, she attended Southern Illinois University Carbondale to study nu... View Less