Anti-vaccine attitudes based on that false claim still exist

[Dude111]

Well regardless,WE NEED TO GET THE WORD OUT!!!!!!

[flamingjimmy]

Well regardless,WE NEED TO GET THE WORD OUT!!!!!!

 

No you don't that is stupid.

 

You really should regard the fact that the information you are regurgitating is grade A nonsense. It's an important point you can't just 'regardless' it away.

[MAC33]

Information that does NOT support the established viewpoint is usually edited out or simply banned...such as this.

 

Sorry...missed the NOT!

 

 

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/27/mo...smtyp=cur&_r=0

 

 

 

Facing a storm of criticism over its plan to show a documentary about the widely debunked link between vaccines and autism, the Tribeca Film Festival on Saturday pulled the film from its schedule next month.

 

In a statement, Robert De Niro, a co-founder of the festival, wrote: “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. 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.”

 

The film, “Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe,” was directed and co-written by Andrew Wakefield, the author of a study that was published in the British medical journal The Lancet and then retracted in 2010. Mr. Wakefield’s medical license was also revoked over his failure to disclose financial conflicts of interest and ethics violations.

 

Information about the film no longer appears on the festival’s website, but on Friday, the site, tribecafilm.com, did not mention Mr. Wakefield’s revoked license or the 2010 retraction, saying instead that the study “would catapult Wakefield into becoming one of the most controversial figures in the history of medicine.” And on Twitter, Mr. Wakefield described the film as a “whistleblower documentary.”

 

When the festival’s plan to show the film was made public on Tuesday, filmmakers and medical experts were vocal in their condemnation of it. The documentarian Penny Lane (“Our Nixon”) posted an open letter on Thursday in Filmmaker Magazine telling the festival that the screening “threatens the credibility of not just the other filmmakers in your doc slate, but the field in general.”

 

Doctors and infectious disease experts also spoke out. “Unless the Tribeca Film Festival plans to definitively unmask Andrew Wakefield, it will be yet another disheartening chapter where a scientific fraud continues to occupy a spotlight,” Dr. Mary Anne Jackson, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, said in an interview on Friday.

 

As the criticism mounted on Friday, Mr. De Niro defended the film, saying that he and his wife, Grace Hightower, have a child with autism and that “we believe it is critical that all of the issues surrounding the causes of autism be openly discussed and examined.”

 

A festival spokeswoman said she would have no further comment about what specifically in the film raised concerns for Mr. De Niro after he initially added it to the festival. The film was to have shown just once, on April 24, and was to be followed by a discussion with the director and subjects of the film.

Edited March 27, 2016 by MAC33

[unbeliever]

Information that does support the established viewpoint is usually edited out or simply banned...such as this.

 

 

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/27/mo...smtyp=cur&_r=0

 

 

 

Facing a storm of criticism over its plan to show a documentary about the widely debunked link between vaccines and autism, the Tribeca Film Festival on Saturday pulled the film from its schedule next month.

 

In a statement, Robert De Niro, a co-founder of the festival, wrote: “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. 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.”

 

The film, “Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe,” was directed and co-written by Andrew Wakefield, the author of a study that was published in the British medical journal The Lancet and then retracted in 2010. Mr. Wakefield’s medical license was also revoked over his failure to disclose financial conflicts of interest and ethics violations.

 

Information about the film no longer appears on the festival’s website, but on Friday, the site, tribecafilm.com, did not mention Mr. Wakefield’s revoked license or the 2010 retraction, saying instead that the study “would catapult Wakefield into becoming one of the most controversial figures in the history of medicine.” And on Twitter, Mr. Wakefield described the film as a “whistleblower documentary.”

 

When the festival’s plan to show the film was made public on Tuesday, filmmakers and medical experts were vocal in their condemnation of it. The documentarian Penny Lane (“Our Nixon”) posted an open letter on Thursday in Filmmaker Magazine telling the festival that the screening “threatens the credibility of not just the other filmmakers in your doc slate, but the field in general.”

 

Doctors and infectious disease experts also spoke out. “Unless the Tribeca Film Festival plans to definitively unmask Andrew Wakefield, it will be yet another disheartening chapter where a scientific fraud continues to occupy a spotlight,” Dr. Mary Anne Jackson, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, said in an interview on Friday.

 

As the criticism mounted on Friday, Mr. De Niro defended the film, saying that he and his wife, Grace Hightower, have a child with autism and that “we believe it is critical that all of the issues surrounding the causes of autism be openly discussed and examined.”

 

A festival spokeswoman said she would have no further comment about what specifically in the film raised concerns for Mr. De Niro after he initially added it to the festival. The film was to have shown just once, on April 24, and was to be followed by a discussion with the director and subjects of the film.

 

You mean information which is fraudulent.

[Phanerothyme]

Nice to see that Mr. Andrew Wakefield's film has been pulled by Robert De Niro (who's own son is autistic) from the Tribeca film festival. Good decision.

[MAC33]

Impossible to make an informed decision if only are only looking at one side of the argument.

 

Many may think they are making an informed choice - but with such documentaries banned - many are not being exposed to the other side of the argument.

 

Can you imagine in a court of law - the defence not being allowed to present their case?

 

This is an attack on freedom of speech.

[ez8004]

Can you imagine in a court of law - the defence not being allowed to present their case?

 

This is an attack on freedom of speech.

 

 

News for you, the universally discredited paper on linking autism to the MMR jab was laid out for all to scrutinise. Guess what, it was peer reviewed and resoundlingly discredited and the researcher stuck off in shame.

[Annie Bynnol]

Impossible to make an informed decision if only are only looking at one side of the argument.

 

Many may think they are making an informed choice - but with such documentaries banned - many are not being exposed to the other side of the argument.

 

Can you imagine in a court of law - the defence not being allowed to present their case?

 

This is an attack on freedom of speech.

 

Freedom of speech is very precious and opinions about this issues have been around for twenty years.

Medical research and scientific theory have established no link between MMR and autism.

 

The British media observed impartiality over the opinions in the 1980's to the extent that the discredited former doctor had the same coverage as the combined opposing view of parents, doctors, scientists and statisticians.

 

The failed and unsubstantiated views of the discredited former doctor becomes meat and drink to conspiracy theorists who like nothing more than self publicity. When challenged invoke some other unprovable evidence.

 

Jumping from one unrelated 'fact' and ignoring the scientific observations is the normal method and flagging up "free speech" for protection is a sure sign of an unprovable conspiracy theory.

[MAC33]

As I've mentioned before in this thread - there is so much evidence out there -from Pediatricians and other professional people giving their testimony to the U.S Gov citing the dangers of vaccination.

 

One in particular female Pediatrician said that she has seen two babies die immediately after receiving their shot.

 

Should this sort of testimony be kept hidden from the public to hear too?

[JFKvsNixon]

As I've mentioned before in this thread - there is so much evidence out there -from Pediatricians and other professional people giving their testimony to the U.S Gov citing the dangers of vaccination.

 

One in particular female Pediatrician said that she has seen two babies die immediately after receiving their shot.

 

Should this sort of testimony be kept hidden from the public to hear too?

 

What you are talking about is speculation not evidence, people speculating by saying that saying they think/believe that MMR has led to Autism. There has been loads of research trying to establish whether or the the speculation has some foundation, and no one has every managed to find a link.