‘Are Vaccines Really As Safe and Effective As We’ve Been Told?’ Asks Documentary

Why the fuck are you publicizing this shit?

It’s nonsense that to say that is a “vaccine injury epidemic ” being hidden. That’s paranoid conspiracy theories at it’s meanest. Everyone knows or should know that vaccines have the possibility for harm. Antivaxxers refuse to allow that vaccines save lives. Lots of lives. That diseases they see as “natural and harmless” do kill and maim at alarming rates. Meanwhile pro vaccers refuse to allow that vaccines can and sometimes do cause harm lest the fear mongers create epidemics by refusing to vaccinate at all. Which is exactly what happens to the misery of all.

Like many things, the debate is not honest or intelligent. Certainly not rational. If it can’t be discussed, then vaccinations’ negative side effects will not be addressed. But that does not mean the paranoid have the right to overwhelm everyone else in their fear mongering. I’m afraid that this debate will keep going on. Vaccines are a victim of their own success- they make many diseases seem far away and people don’t see the maiming and death from them anymore. They refuse to acknowledge the good that is gained from the risk..

The director of Vaxxed is the same crook who first published the fraudulent autism study in the beginning. He also had huge conflicts of interest because of a product he was selling, and also money he was receiving from lawyers. He should be in jail for harming children.

I have family who are elderly, infants, and cancer survivors with compromised immune systems. Publishing this trash is a direct threat to the lives in my community and family! Its misinformation, and it spreads delusional thinking.

Ariana Eunjung Cha ;

“”On its surface, the movie “Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe” appears to be a slickly produced scientific documentary with lots of charts and data about one of the most important issues of our time. The central premise of the film is that the country’s mandatory measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine — when given to children under age 2 — may be leading to an epidemic of autism diagnoses.

It contains heartbreaking footage of happy, laughing toddlers who, their parents say, became profoundly disabled almost overnight after receiving the shot. It explains the findings of a study that confirms the link and unearths recordings from a former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scientist who purportedly claimed the government quashed findings of the connection.

The New York based Tribeca Film Festival pulled the controversial documentary “Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe” after public criticism. (Erin Patrick O’Connor/The Washington Post)
But what the movie doesn’t get into is as compelling as what it does present. There are numerous facts, backstories and events that the filmmakers pretend didn’t happen that challenge many of the main points of the film. Here’s what you need to know to put “Vaxxed” into context:

1) The most important thing to know is that the link between vaccines and autism has been debunked — widely and repeatedly. The original study that raised the issue was published in 1998 in the journal the Lancet and involved 12 patients who, after receiving the MMR vaccine, suffered ill effects that appeared to be autism. While many researchers were skeptical of the finding, panicked parents in both Great Britain and the United States pushed vaccination rates down sharply. Outbreaks of the measles, mumps and rubella on both sides of the Atlantic soon followed.

In 2004, Sunday Times journalist Brian Deer reported serious ethical violations by the 1998 paper’s lead author, gastroenterologist Andrew Wakefield. Deer accused Wakefield of having been paid by a law firm that had been planning to sue vaccine manufacturers and of subjecting some of the children to unnecessary, invasive procedures for the study. After the revelations, most of the researchers named as co-authors in the study disavowed the findings and withdrew their names from the paper. In 2010, the Lancet’s editors retracted the paper. Three months later, Britain’s General Medical Council revoked Wakefield’s medical license.

In 2011, the British medical journal the BMJ published a detailed investigation into the research, calling it an “elaborate fraud” by Wakefield and lamenting the harm it had caused and would continue to cause to the public health.

“It’s one thing to have a bad study, a study full of error, and for the authors then to admit that they made errors,” BMJ editor-in-chief Fiona Godlee told CNN at the time. “But in this case, we have a very different picture of what seems to be a deliberate attempt to create an impression that there was a link by falsifying the data.”

2) The director of “Vaxxed” — and the main expert who appears on camera — is that same Andrew Wakefield.!!!!!!!!

The New York based Tribeca Film Festival pulled the controversial documentary “Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe” after public criticism. (Erin Patrick O’Connor/The Washington Post)
3) Actor Robert De Niro, who has an autistic son, originally lobbied to put the film on the schedule for the Tribeca Film Festival in March. But several days later, he said he had a change of heart.

“My intent in screening this film was to provide an opportunity for conversation around an issue that is deeply personal to me and my family,” he said in a statement. “But after reviewing it over the past few days with the Tribeca Film Festival team and others from the scientific community, we do not believe it contributes to or furthers the discussion I had hoped for.”

Robert De Niro accused of censorship after yanking anti-vaccine movie from film festival

4) One of the main figures in the film, CDC scientist William Thompson, is heard only in voice recordings. Those recordings, the movie discloses, were of phone conversations Thompson had with another researcher who secretly recorded the calls. “Oh, my God. I cannot believe we did what we did. But we did,” Thompson says at one point, purportedly about omitting findings confirming a link between the MMR vaccine and autism from an official 2004 report.

Thompson has remained silent on the matter, but the other researcher, biologist Brian Hooker, has released a statement saying that Thompson would be publishing a paper soon that shows no link between the MMR vaccine and autism in African American males after all.

Hooker said he is “suspect of any analysis coming from the CDC due to the historic nature of the agency’s scientific misconduct and conflicts of interest specifically around any link between vaccines and autism.” He also detailed his conversations with Thompson:

Dr. William Thompson, senior scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) contacted me during 2013 and 2014 and shared many issues regarding fraud and malfeasance in the CDC, specifically regarding the link between neurodevelopmental disorders and childhood vaccines. Dr. Thompson and I spoke on the phone more than 40 times over a 10 month period and he shared thousands of pages of CDC documents with me. Eventually, Dr. Thompson turned this information over to Congress via Rep. Bill Posey of Florida.
5) While the issue of vaccines and autism still comes up regularly — as it did when presidential contender Donald Trump mentioned his belief in the theory in a debate last year — most scientists consider the connection between vaccines and autism to be discredited. Dozens of top journals — including the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders — have published papers that looked into a possible link and found none.

A study in JAMA in April 2015 was one of the largest; it involved an analysis of 96,000 children. The authors wrote that their findings “indicate no harmful association between MMR vaccine receipt and [autism spectrum disorder] even among children already at higher risk.”

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6) While experts still don’t know what causes autism, it is thought to be a combination of genetic and environmental factors such as infections or exposure to certain chemicals that may lead to differences in the shape and structure of a child’s brain. According to an estimate by the CDC published last year, 1 in 45 (or 2.24 percent) of children age 3 to 17 may have autism — a steep rise over the past few decades. Researchers have theorized that part of the rise could be attributable to a greater awareness of the condition. The CDC said the most recent jump from 2011 to 2014 may have a very mundane reason behind it: a change in the questionnaire the agency uses to track cases.

7) Movie critics have come out with very different takes on the film. The San Francisco Chronicle’s Mick LaSalle appeared to be moved by the footage and personal stories of the children and their parents. “Of course, it’s possible that the children would have developed autism anyway, and that one event didn’t cause the other. But the parents presented here are convinced otherwise,” he wrote. While acknowledging that the film “doesn’t contain the whole story,” LaSalle called it “a passionate advocate for its viewpoint … that makes for compelling viewing.”

Other reviewers weren’t so generous. The Washington Post’s Michael O’Sullivan called it “closer to horror film than documentary.” Stat’s Rebecca Robbins commented on the film’s “paranoid tone.” The Age’s Sarah Gill warned: “Don’t be fooled — Wakefield’s story is not the tale of a man wronged by powerful corporations or the medical establishment, which, in fact, closed ranks to protect him. It’s the story of a physician who set out to cast doubt on vaccine safety before he’d even gathered the evidence, and he did so not for the public good, but for profit.”

https://www.newsweek.com/vaxxed-2-tickets-anti-vaccine-documentary-sequel-secret-blocked-1468899

well wither or not vaccines cause health concerns or not, my personal experance with them has not been all roses. even today i suffer side effects form 3 differant vaccines i recived while serving. 2 of which almost killed me. all of which were mandatory at the time and have since been changed to where a service person can opt out. I do not support anything being mandatory in reguards to what a person puts into their body or their childs. I also beleive that if these vaccines are so safe that the companies producing the should not need protected from lawsuites. while i understand the process of herd health. I see things a bit differantly. just because someone else or their child is at risk because of a weakened immune system everyone else should risk their own and that of their childrens health ? hardly. there is a reason this planet is over populated. and as cold as it my seem. the planet has a system for population control. in which the weak and sick are supposed to die out. we have been mucking with the general order of life . keeping the elderly alive in nursing homes where they are merely suriving because no one wants to let them go , yet many of those in those homes seem forgotten except on holidays. Sick children with horrorable illnesses are suriving from birth never to recover but to lay there needing constant medicial care some never even talking because of why ? you talk about not wanting suffering lets start there before telling people that they must inject something into their bodies or their childrens bodies that is produced by companies that are publicly traded that must under threat of law make their shareholders as much money as they can.