Cyre2067
The Living Force
I went to see Vaxxed this weekend with PhoenixtoEmbers, Guille & Etro and we all found it pretty interesting. I'll leave it to the guys to give their impressions, but for myself I found it really educational.
Here's the trailer:
https://vimeo.com/159566038
I wasn't really sure what to expect going in. I knew that the film was by Dr. Andrew Wakefield, and would naturally be critically of the vaccine industry, but what I didn't know was how well argued the film's core premise would be. That premise is that the CDC has lied, for well-over a decade, after it was tasked in 2000 with determining, definitively, whether there was a correlation between the MMR vaccine and autism.
The film follows Dr Brian Hooker as he gets access to original CDC data via a whistleblower from inside the organization, Dr William Thompson. Dr Thompson alleges a conspiracy of incredible proportions. Destruction of documents, obstruction of justice, grievous harm inflicted upon children are just a few of the crimes this film suggest occurred. When you see it yourself, compare the evidence to the testimony of parents who have autistic kids, you just can't help but ask yourself are we being lied to?
We also see first-hand the symptoms of autism, up-close, from the parents perspective. Throughout the film, you hear again & again, my child was normal, healthy and happy until he got his 12-month immunizations. There was even one case that was a pair of twins, the first twin had such a terrible reaction that the mother pulled her kids out of there. The boy ended up severely autistic & the girl is a straight-A student who plays classical piano, basically disproving any sort of genetic factor as the cause.
Overall I thought the film was powerful. It showed how pharmaceutical industry executives, academics and regulators are all filled from the same pool of people and how those people move between each sector with ease. There was even one lady who was head of the CDC during the 'definitive' (read as fraudulent) CDC study that 'disproved' the MMR-Autism link and guess where she works now? Head of Merck's Vaccine Division.
We learn about 'Vaccine Court' which is where parents who believe their children were damaged by vaccines go to sue for compensation - they can't sue the manufacturer due to a piece of 1986 legislation that says taxpayers foot the bill, not pharma co's. Thanks to this fraudulent study, autistic spectrum disorders cannot be blamed on the MMR, saving tax payers around 3 trillion dollars in compensation which would be owed to these families IF the MMR-Autism link was proven.
Right now it's playing in NYC @ the Angelika & Santa Monica @ their affiliate there. There's a few other film-festivals that it's showing at, and you can follow the developments at their website: _http://www.vaxxedthemovie.com/
I'm assuming it will eventually be available either to stream or on Netflix, right now I'm getting the impression that they're riding the buzz and by keeping it exclusively in theaters it drives the conversation. I wouldn't even have heard about it unless it was pulled from the Tribeca film fest and the resultant controversy.
Overall a great film, worth seeing, highly recommended.
ADMIN: corrected spelling in subject field.
Here's the trailer:
https://vimeo.com/159566038
I wasn't really sure what to expect going in. I knew that the film was by Dr. Andrew Wakefield, and would naturally be critically of the vaccine industry, but what I didn't know was how well argued the film's core premise would be. That premise is that the CDC has lied, for well-over a decade, after it was tasked in 2000 with determining, definitively, whether there was a correlation between the MMR vaccine and autism.
The film follows Dr Brian Hooker as he gets access to original CDC data via a whistleblower from inside the organization, Dr William Thompson. Dr Thompson alleges a conspiracy of incredible proportions. Destruction of documents, obstruction of justice, grievous harm inflicted upon children are just a few of the crimes this film suggest occurred. When you see it yourself, compare the evidence to the testimony of parents who have autistic kids, you just can't help but ask yourself are we being lied to?
We also see first-hand the symptoms of autism, up-close, from the parents perspective. Throughout the film, you hear again & again, my child was normal, healthy and happy until he got his 12-month immunizations. There was even one case that was a pair of twins, the first twin had such a terrible reaction that the mother pulled her kids out of there. The boy ended up severely autistic & the girl is a straight-A student who plays classical piano, basically disproving any sort of genetic factor as the cause.
Overall I thought the film was powerful. It showed how pharmaceutical industry executives, academics and regulators are all filled from the same pool of people and how those people move between each sector with ease. There was even one lady who was head of the CDC during the 'definitive' (read as fraudulent) CDC study that 'disproved' the MMR-Autism link and guess where she works now? Head of Merck's Vaccine Division.
We learn about 'Vaccine Court' which is where parents who believe their children were damaged by vaccines go to sue for compensation - they can't sue the manufacturer due to a piece of 1986 legislation that says taxpayers foot the bill, not pharma co's. Thanks to this fraudulent study, autistic spectrum disorders cannot be blamed on the MMR, saving tax payers around 3 trillion dollars in compensation which would be owed to these families IF the MMR-Autism link was proven.
Right now it's playing in NYC @ the Angelika & Santa Monica @ their affiliate there. There's a few other film-festivals that it's showing at, and you can follow the developments at their website: _http://www.vaxxedthemovie.com/
I'm assuming it will eventually be available either to stream or on Netflix, right now I'm getting the impression that they're riding the buzz and by keeping it exclusively in theaters it drives the conversation. I wouldn't even have heard about it unless it was pulled from the Tribeca film fest and the resultant controversy.
Overall a great film, worth seeing, highly recommended.
ADMIN: corrected spelling in subject field.
