{"id":9723,"date":"2013-11-18T05:00:47","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T10:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/?p=9723"},"modified":"2013-11-18T03:47:59","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T08:47:59","slug":"bette-midler-the-jenny-mccarthy-of-food-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/9723","title":{"rendered":"Bette Midler, the Jenny McCarthy of Food Policy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/BetteMidler.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9724\" alt=\"BetteMidler\" src=\"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/BetteMidler.jpg\" width=\"573\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a>Actress Jenny McCarthy is well-known for opposing vaccines, because they &#8220;cause autism.&#8221; Never mind the fact that there is an overwhelming body of research that shows that vaccines do not cause autism, Jenny McCarthy just knows.\u00a0Because Jenny McCarthy is a celebrity, she commands much more attention than her knowledge of medicine would normally command.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise with Bette Midler, who has taken to pontificating about genetically modified organisms in the tweet above (and probably elsewhere; I didn&#8217;t want to look&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Really, is it be too much to ask from celebrities that they stick to what they know?<\/p>\n<p>(ht: <a title=\"David Rieff\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Rieff\" target=\"_blank\">David Rieff<\/a>, via Twitter.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actress Jenny McCarthy is well-known for opposing vaccines, because they &#8220;cause autism.&#8221; Never mind the fact that there is an overwhelming body of research that&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/9723\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bette Midler, the Jenny McCarthy of Food Policy?<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,30,26,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-commentary","category-food","category-policy","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gPg8-2wP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9723"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9730,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9723\/revisions\/9730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}