Jim Carrey calls Jerry Brown a 'corporate fascist' for vaccine law

Comedian Jim Carrey called California Gov. Jerry Brown a “corporate fascist” Tuesday for signing a law requiring all children attending the state’s public schools to be vaccinated.

“California Gov says yes to poisoning more children with mercury and aluminum in manditory [sic] vaccines,” Carrey tweeted. “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?”

Thimerosol is a mercury-containing compound previously used as a preservative in vaccines. According to the Food and Drug Administration, the compound has since been “removed from or reduced to trace amounts in all vaccines routinely recommended for children 6 years of age and younger,” though the causal link between thimerosol and neurological disorders has not been supported by the data.

Brown signed the vaccine requirement bill on Tuesday after his state underwent a measles outbreak, stemming largely from Disneyland, that infected numerous unvaccinated children. The outbreak led to a renewed public debate over whether or not states should require parents to vaccinate their children as a public health measure, with a number of Republican presidential candidates including Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Gov. Chris Christie (R-N.J.) advocating some level of parental choice in the issue.

Carrey continued his Twitter rant about vaccines, writing “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!”

“The CDC can’t solve a problem they helped start. It’s too risky to admit they have been wrong about mercury/thimerasol. They are corrupt.”

“I am PRO-VACCINE/ANTI-NEUROTOXIN, Get that straight. Traceamounts.com,” he added, later saying that he held the same position as Robert Kennedy Jr.

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