Flashback: ABC Featured Anti-Vaccine Jenny McCarthy to Insist She's Not an Anti-Vaxxer

[See NewsBusters for more.] ABC is worried that Hollywood celebrities have been promoting anti-science, anti-vaccine conspiracy theories. Yet, the network seemed to forget that it employed one, Jenny McCarthy, as a host. Not only that, but ABC prompted actress McCarthy to spout her uninformed vaccine views. Nightline’s Dan Harris on Wednesday explained the threat posed by not vaccinating: “Just last month, Washington declared a state of emergency after a measles outbreak in Clark County where 7.9 percent of children have gotten exemptions from vaccines.” At no point in the segment did Harris explain that his own network hired McCarthy as a co-host of The View in 2013. ABC also helped McCarthy spin her real feeling on vaccines. On the May 7, 2014 Good Morning America, co-host Lara Spencer helpfully claimed, “You said that you've been wrongly branded as anti-vaccine.”