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It’s “outrageously irresponsible” for celebrities like Jenny McCarthy to encourage parents not to immunize their children against potentially deadly diseases, Ontario Health Minister Deb Matthews said Wednesday.

McCarthy, currently co-host of talk show The View, has been vocal about her belief that vaccines can cause autism in children like her son — a claim largely based on a research paper that has since been denounced as fraudulent.

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“The science is very clear,” said Matthews.

“The study she’s referred to has been discredited many times. There is absolutely no truth in that argument.”

McCarthy, who’s faced harsh criticism for the views, recently said she’s not anti-vaccine and never told parents not to have their children immunized.

She said she simply questioned the “one size fits all” approach to giving infants multiple shots at one time.

“I embarked on this quest not only for myself and my family, but for countless parents who shared my desire for knowledge that could lead to options and alternate schedules, but never to eliminate the vaccines,” she wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times on April 12.