In the United States, Jenny McCarthy blamed vaccinations for her son Evan's disorders and leveraged her celebrity status to warn parents of a link between vaccines and autism. Evan's disorder began with seizures and his improvement occurred after the seizures were treated, symptoms experts have noted are more consistent with Landau–Kleffner syndrome, often misdiagnosed as autism.[156] After the Lancet article was discredited, McCarthy continued to defend Wakefield.[157] An article in Salon.com called McCarthy "a menace" for her continued position that vaccines are dangerous.[158]