On Twitter, Jim Carrey blasts anyone and anything connected to California's new vaccination law
Either Jim Carrey is preparing for the role of a lifetime as an unhinged Twitter user, or the actor knowingly had an online meltdown where he called California's governor a "corporate fascist" and posted several photos of children crying over a new, strict vaccination law.
After Gov. Jerry Brown (D) on Tuesday signed into law a bill that requires all public school children to be vaccinated beginning in 2016, Carrey went on a Twitter rampage, writing that Brown "says yes to poisoning more children with mercury and aluminum in mandatory vaccines. This corporate fascist must be stopped." Later, he added, "They say mercury in fish is dangerous but forcing all of our children to be injected with mercury in thimerosol is no risk. Make sense?" Then, he clarified, "I am not anti-vaccine. I am anti-thimerosal, anti-mercury. They have taken some of the mercury laden thimerosal out of vaccines. NOT ALL!"
Carrey then turned on the CDC, saying they "can't solve a problem they helped start. It's too risky to admit they have been wrong about mercury/thimerasol. They are corrupt." After tweeting several times that he's "PRO-VACCINE/ANTI-NEUROTOXIN," Carrey started adding photos of freaked out looking children to his messages. He finally went silent on the matter Wednesday morning, but not before he was bombarded with pro-vaccination tweets and news articles about how he was descending into madness. It's not too surprising that Carrey has these views — his ex-girlfriend Jenny McCarthy is famous for speaking out against vaccinations. What is surprising is that he thought people were actually waiting for him to weigh in on the matter.
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Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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