Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe
- 2016
- 1h 31m
A documentary alleging that the CDC, the government agency charged with protecting the health of American citizens, destroyed data on their 2004 study that allegedly showed a link between th... Read allA documentary alleging that the CDC, the government agency charged with protecting the health of American citizens, destroyed data on their 2004 study that allegedly showed a link between the MMR vaccine and autism.A documentary alleging that the CDC, the government agency charged with protecting the health of American citizens, destroyed data on their 2004 study that allegedly showed a link between the MMR vaccine and autism.
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- TriviaDirector Andrew Wakefield was main author of the study printed in the scientific journal "The Lancet" in 1998, which started the controversy between vaccines and autism. This study was later retracted by The Lancet, and Wakefield lost his medical license as a result. Dr. Wakefield, however, was not the only one found guilty. Co-author of the study Dr. J.A. Walker-Smith was also found guilty and stricken from the medical record by the same ruling of the General Medical Council (GMC) in Britain in 2010, although he had retired from practice in 2001. In contrast to Dr. Wakefield's insurance carrier, Dr. Walker-Smith's paid for an appeal, and in 2012 the High Court under Justice Mitting cleared Walker-Smith of all charges, concluding that the GMC's ruling had been flawed by "inadequate and superficial reasoning, and, in a number of instances, a wrong conclusion." Mr. Justice Mitting even called for changes in the way the GMC's hearings are conducted, saying "It would be a misfortune if this were to happen again."
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Del Matthew Bigtree: So I had sent you what William Thompson has said is the fraud of the CDC, all that data that was missing. Did you get a chance to really look it over?
Rachael Ross: It's... uhm... it's really unbelievable, how blatantly the data were switched around. It made me question whether or not this organization that's been mandating how I practice medicine... well, if they're lying about this, and leaving data out of this particular study, *what else am I being lied to about?*
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Written by Francesco Lupica
Performed by Francesco Lupica
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Right at the heart of the doc is a fantastic protagonist/antagonist depending on your perspective. This flawed but brilliant character leaves a Faustian mosaic across the 90 minutes and is compelling viewing.
Bobby DeNiro recently went on record as saying there is something there. And I found myself walking away agreeing with him. In the UK there isn't the violence in rhetoric that appears to mare the discussing in the US. We came to terms many years ago that when it comes to Pharma we're all guinea pigs - and that this applies to vaccines as much as it does Vioxx or any other problem drug. It seems that the US is a long way from this level of acceptance which is all the more reason to go watch Vaxxed and let the science do the talking for 90 minutes. And wherever you stand at the end of the movie at least you can say that was a worthwhile way to spend 90 minutes.
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $1,163,265
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $28,339
- Apr 3, 2016
- Gross worldwide
- $1,163,265
- Runtime1 hour 31 minutes
- Color