Jim Carrey took to Twitter Wednesday to speak up against California's new law mandating school vaccinations.
California Governor Jerry Brown signed one of the strictest immunizations programs in the country Tuesday, which removes personal or religious exemptions. The new law, called SB 277, thereby requires parents to have their children vaccinated in order for them to go to school, reports NBC News. The only way parents can send their unvaccinated kids to school is if they have a doctor's note certifying the medically related exemption.
Jim Carrey, who believes that there is a link between vaccines and autism, went on a Twitter rant Wednesday and branded Governor Brown a "corporate fascist", reports E!News. The comedian has become an activist on the issue, ever since the actor's relationship with Jenny McCarthy, who believes her son's autism was caused by vaccines.
Carrey posted a series of tweets, venting his frustrations over the new law and writing how vaccines contains mercury in the form of thimerosal. The actor also asked to have the dangerous chemical removed from the vaccines, writing, "All we are saying is,"Take the neurotoxins out of the vaccines." Make them toxin free. History will show that that was a reasonable request." He even tweeted, "TOXIN FREE VACCINES, A REASONABLE REQUEST!"
However, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there is "no link between thimerosal-containing vaccines and [autism], as well as no link between the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine and [autism] in children." CDC has conducted studies specifically on thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative used to prevent contamination of multidose vials of vaccines, and found that it does not cause autism.
The new California vaccine law comes in the wake of a measles outbreak of measles that started at Disneyland and affected 147 people in the U.S. and Mexico, reports NBC News. Governor Brown wrote in a statement which accompanied the new law announcement: "The science is clear that vaccines dramatically protect children against a number of infectious and dangerous diseases. While it's true that no medical intervention is without risk, the evidence shows that immunization powerfully benefits and protects the community."
