{"id":6309,"date":"2024-10-19T23:02:33","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T03:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/?p=6309"},"modified":"2024-10-19T23:02:33","modified_gmt":"2024-10-20T03:02:33","slug":"vaxxed-from-cover-up-to-catastrophe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/2024\/10\/19\/vaxxed-from-cover-up-to-catastrophe\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe <\/strong>(2016)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinema Libre Studio\/Documentary\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 91 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 No MPAA rating (thematic elements)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Andrew Wakefield\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Del Bigtree and Andrew Wakefield\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Francesco Lupica\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Brian Burrowes, Andrew Debosz, Kelly Gallagher, Tanayia Koonce, Erik Nanstiel, Mark Roethke, Jenn Sherry Parry, Wael Shukha and Imogen Wakefield\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: May 20, 2016 (Philadelphia, PA)<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: *<\/p>\n

\u00a0I won\u2019t deny that director Andrew Wakefield makes a compelling argument against vaccinations in his documentary Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe<\/strong>. In it, he purports that the CDC (Center for Disease Control) colluded with Big Pharma to conceal from the public a study showing that the MMR (Measles, Mumps and Rubella) vaccine causes autism in children. He shows us a lot of statistics. He interviews parents who all tell the same story. They claim their children were completely normal before getting the vaccine and started showing signs of autism immediately afterwards. I can see where this would scare the hell out of people, parents in particular. Here\u2019s the problem. Everything you see and hear in Vaxxed<\/strong> is dubious due to Wakefield\u2019s failure to disclose certain facts. A lie by omission is still a lie.<\/p>\n

\u00a0What Wakefield doesn\u2019t tell us is that his license to practice medicine was revoked in \u201910, around the same time his MMR study was discredited as fraudulent. He also doesn\u2019t reveal that 11 of his co-authors withdrew their names from his paper. If he did, I\u2019m sure he\u2019d claim it\u2019s all part of the Big Pharma conspiracy. Also, Vaxxed<\/strong> was supposed to premiere at last month\u2019s Tribeca Film Festival, but was pulled after much public outcry over its veracity.<\/p>\n

\u00a0All of this I learned this after seeing the movie. Had I known beforehand, it might have changed the way I approached it. But I knew something was off about Vaxxed<\/strong>. For one thing, it\u2019s totally one-sided. Why don\u2019t we hear from the pro-vaccination camp? Shouldn\u2019t both sides of the issue be presented? That vexed me quite a bit. Then there\u2019s the whole CDC whistleblower narrative. We hear phone calls between anti-vaccination activist Brian Hooker and CDC scientist William Thompson who didn\u2019t know the calls were being recorded. He never appears on-screen. The recordings sound suspiciously spliced together. Would they stand up to authentication by experts? I have my doubts.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I can\u2019t attest to what is and what isn\u2019t scientifically factual in Vaxxed<\/strong>. What I can say is that Wakefield throws a lot of boring data at the audience. The interviews are obviously meant to push emotional buttons. Its one-sidedness reveals that the man has an agenda. Vaxxed<\/strong> is nothing more than a barely-veiled attempt to push his anti-vaccination platform. That, my friends, is the very definition of propaganda. As such, it\u2019s not good cinema. The movie is competently produced, but poorly constructed. Wakefield keeps making the same points while not producing much to back them up. It\u2019s not uninteresting. Like I said, it\u2019s a compelling argument. The flaw lies in the execution. I won\u2019t discuss my position on the matter, but if I needed persuasion, Vaxxed<\/strong> wouldn\u2019t do it.\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe (2016)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinema Libre Studio\/Documentary\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 91 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 No MPAA rating (thematic elements)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Andrew Wakefield\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Del Bigtree and Andrew Wakefield\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Francesco Lupica\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Brian Burrowes, Andrew Debosz, Kelly Gallagher, Tanayia Koonce, Erik Nanstiel, Mark Roethke, Jenn Sherry Parry, Wael Shukha and Imogen Wakefield\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: May 20, 2016 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-documentary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Vaxxed-PIC.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6309"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6423,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6309\/revisions\/6423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}