fueled by celebrities like oprah winfrey and jenny mccarthy to stop vaccinating children which is a troubling development. his focus on vaccinations has diverted money away from important autism research. he spoke at the university of wisconsin in madison for a little over an hour. >> i'm going to talk briefly about how the book came about and some themes that i try and deal with in the book. then i will leave as much time as i can for questions. i have spoken with a number of different types of groups, and it has been hard for me to anticipate what the questions are going to be outside of them always being provocative and interesting. so -- and i expect that will be even more true tonight at a university where people are coming at it from all sorts of different angles. as opposed to a nursing coalition or the center for inquiry or different places. so excuse me. i will also be sipping a lot. replenishing my liquids. so, this book, this project started for me about three years ago a little more than three years ago. and at the time i was newly married. we move into an area where the were a lo

jenny mccarthy. pro, could make "two and a half men" out of anyone.k. that's assuming producers will create a new hedonistic, anti-hero character, to replace sheen's character. >> it's been done many times. especially on situation comedies. charlie sheen replaced michael j. fox on "spin city" and continued the show for two years. >> reporter: weirder things have been tried before. "bewitched" switched darrens. dallas wrote off an entire bobby ewing scenario with a dream scenario. and when valerie harper and a show named after her "valerie" parted ways, they renamed the show, "the harpers." put her characteristics feet under. >> it's the first time i left the boys since their accident. and charlie sheen had no problem leaving the boys. it's the women to whom he's sticking close. they and his web-based conduit to the outside world. >> i'll see you all soon. on the battlefield. godspeed. >> reporter: charlie sheen, speaking in riddles, i suppose. the real riddle is, who might replace him, robin? >> we'll talk more about that, chris. thank you. >>> joinin

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reasons, i should say, at the time that it was probably starting to come up a lot is because jenny mccarthy had just come out i think with a second that now her for books, focusing on her belief that the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine had either caused or triggered her son's autism and -- i have to be very careful with how i say this but her story has not been entirely consistent over the years. i started looking into it and i spent most of the last three years reading scientific studie, interviewing parents, parents whose children had died of vaccine medical diseases, parents whose children were very severely affected by autism, scientists, doctors, public health officials, activists and i also read what ended up to be thousands and thousands of pages of court appearances for an ongoing series of trials on this issue. and at the end, it seemed really very clear to me that this wasn't a case where there was a legitimate debate that i felt about where the evidence actually lay. this was the situation in which there was an overwhelming amount of evidence on one side, and a tiny number of discr